02/22/2018 / By Edsel Cook
Recent findings regarding unrecognized heart attacks (myocardial infarction; MI) have renewed concerns about the accuracy of standard medical tests routinely administered by hospitals and doctors. Researchers came about this discovery while looking into the long-term outlook of unrecognized MI cases; their results were published in the European Society of Cardiology (ESC).
Researchers recommended shifting a proportion of cardiac evaluation from traditional tests to CMR imaging for early and accurate diagnosis of unrecognized MI patients.
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cardiology, cardiovascular disease, CMR, ECG, heart attack, heart attack diagnosis, myocardial infarction, standard medical tests, unrecognized heart attack, unrecognized myocardial infarction
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