American College of Cardiology

BRAUNWALD ET AL., MANAGEMENT OF PATIENTS WITH UNSTABLE ANGINA AND NON-ST-SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION UPDATE
http://www.acc.org/clinical/guidelines/unstable/update_index.htm

ACC/AHA 2002 Guideline Update for the Management of Patients With Unstable Angina and Non-ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction

A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (Committee on the Management of Patients With Unstable Angina)

This is a Guideline Update of the 2000 Unstable Angina Guidelines. To highlight the changes, deleted text is indicated by strikeout, and revised text is presented in brown. A clean version of the document, with changes fully incorporated, is available for download and print.

Figure 4. Relationship between cardiac troponin levels and risk of mortality in patients with ACS. Used with permission from Antman EM, Tanasijevic MJ, Thompson B, et al. Cardiac-specific troponin I levels to predict the risk of mortality in patients with acute coronary syndromes. N Engl J Med 1996;335:1342-9.