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A little over 50 years ago, my father had a heart attack. He was driven to the hospital by friends after having "indigestion" for 2 days. He spent 2 weeks as an inpatient on an unmonitored rehabilitation ward and was treated principally with warfarin and digitalis. He was lucky and survived, but in that era, more than 20% of patients with an acute myocardial infarction died. Fast-forward to today, when public education about early recognition of symptoms, emergency transport, monitored coronary care units, and early reperfusion by means of primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) have markedly reduced mortality from acute . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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From the Virginia Commonwealth University Pauley Heart Center, Medical College of Virginia Hospitals, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond.

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