Non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction

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最后审阅: 11 Jun 2025
最后更新: 24 Apr 2025

小结

定义

病史和体格检查

关键诊断因素

  • chest pain
  • risk factors for cardiovascular disease
  • marked sweating
  • cardiogenic shock
  • acute heart failure
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其他诊断因素

  • nausea and vomiting
  • arrhythmias
  • Abnormal heart sounds
  • epigastric pain
  • dyspnoea
  • syncope
  • back pain
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危险因素

  • smoking
  • hypertension
  • diabetes
  • obesity and metabolic syndrome phenotype
  • sedentary behaviour and physical inactivity
  • dyslipidaemia
  • chronic kidney disease
  • atherosclerosis (history of angina, myocardial infarction, stroke, transient ischaemic attack, peripheral vascular disease)
  • family history of premature coronary artery disease
  • age >60 years
  • cocaine use
  • depression
  • stent thrombosis or restenosis
  • sleep apnoea
  • surgical procedures (including intra-operative and postoperative periods)
  • migraine
  • adverse pregnancy outcomes
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诊断性检查

首要检查

  • ECG
  • high-sensitivity troponin
  • echocardiography
  • chest x-ray
  • full blood count
  • urea, electrolytes, and creatinine
  • liver function tests
  • blood glucose
  • C-reactive protein
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需考虑的检查

  • invasive coronary angiography (ICA)
  • lipids
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治疗流程

急症处理

very high-risk or high-risk features (suspected or confirmed NSTEMI)

no high-risk features (suspected or confirmed NSTEMI)

持续性治疗

post-NSTEMI

撰稿人

专家顾问

Shrilla Banerjee, MD, FRCP

Consultant Interventional Cardiologist

East Surrey Hospital

Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust

UK

利益声明

SB has received speaker fees for educational lectures (presentation content was her own) and meeting participation from Menarini, Edwards Lifesciences, Abbott Vascular, and Shockwave IVL. She has also participated in an Advisory Board for Sahajanand Medical Technologies Limited. SB has received travel sponsorship from Biosensors International to attend the PCR meeting in Paris in 2022. She has prepared a manuscript on coronary microvascular dysfunction for Abbott for Cardiovascular News (no royalties).

Adam Hartley, MBBS, BSc, MRCP

Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Fellow

Imperial College London

Specialist Registrar in Cardiology

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

London

UK

利益声明

AH declares that he has no competing interests.

Acknowledgements

BMJ Best Practice would like to gratefully acknowledge the previous expert contributors, whose work has been retained in parts of the content:

Resham Baruah MBBS, BSc MRCP, PhD

Consultant Cardiologist

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust

London

UK

Cody S Deen, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Director of Cardiology

Hillsborough Hospital

University of North Carolina

Hillsborough

NC

利益声明

RB has received honoraria/speakers’ fees from Novartis and Boehringer Ingelheim. CSD was previously the Director of Cardiac Rehab for Chatham Hospital, which was financially set up as a consultancy relationship, until 2017. CSD has spoken (unpaid) at the Update in Cardiology and Update in Internal Medicine Conferences at UNC for the last 5 years. CSD has served as the PI for the Dal-GeneE (site now closed) and the ACCELERATE Trials at the University of North Carolina (trial now completed). Each trial required paid travel to an investigator meeting.

同行评议者

Gavin Galasko, BM, BCh, MA, DM (Oxon), FRCP

Consultant Interventional Cardiologist

Director of Research, Development and Innovation

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Blackpool

UK

Disclosures

GG declares that he has no competing interests.

References

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Key articles

Amsterdam EA, Wenger NK, Brindis RG, et al. 2014 AHA/ACC guideline for the management of patients with non-ST-elevation acute coronary syndromes: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2014 Dec 23;64(24):e139-228.Full text  Abstract

Byrne RA, Rossello X, Coughlan JJ, et al. 2023 ESC guidelines for the management of acute coronary syndromes. Eur Heart J. 2023 Oct 12;44(38):3720-826.Full text  Abstract

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. Acute coronary syndromes. Nov 2020 [internet publication].Full text

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. Recent-onset chest pain of suspected cardiac origin: assessment and diagnosis. Nov 2016 [internet publication].Full text

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