Infarto do miocárdio sem supradesnivelamento do segmento ST

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Last reviewed: 27 Nov 2025
Last updated: 24 Apr 2025

Summary

Definition

History and exam

Key diagnostic factors

  • dor torácica
  • fatores de risco para doenças cardiovasculares
  • sudorese acentuada
  • choque cardiogênico
  • insuficiência cardíaca aguda
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Other diagnostic factors

  • náuseas e vômitos
  • arritmias
  • bulhas cardíacas anormais
  • dor epigástrica
  • dispneia
  • síncope
  • dorsalgia
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Risk factors

  • tabagismo
  • hipertensão
  • diabetes
  • obesidade e fenótipo de síndrome metabólica
  • comportamento sedentário e inatividade física
  • dislipidemia
  • doença renal crônica
  • aterosclerose (história de angina, infarto do miocárdio, AVC, ataque isquêmico transitório, doença vascular periférica)
  • história familiar de doença arterial coronariana prematura
  • idade >60 anos
  • uso de cocaína
  • depressão
  • trombose de stent ou reestenose
  • apneia do sono
  • procedimentos cirúrgicos (incluindo os períodos intraoperatório e pós-operatório)
  • enxaqueca
  • desfechos adversos da gestação
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Diagnostic tests

1st tests to order

  • eletrocardiograma (ECG)
  • troponina de alta sensibilidade
  • ecocardiografia
  • radiografia torácica
  • hemograma completo
  • ureia, eletrólitos e creatinina
  • testes da função hepática
  • glicose sanguínea
  • proteína C-reativa
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Tests to consider

  • angiografia coronariana invasiva (ACI)
  • lipídios
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Treatment algorithm

ACUTE

características de risco muito alto ou alto risco (IAMSSST suspeito ou confirmado)

sem características de alto risco (IAMSSST suspeito ou confirmado)

ONGOING

Pós-IAMSSST

Contributors

Expert advisers

Shrilla Banerjee, MD, FRCP

Consultant Interventional Cardiologist

East Surrey Hospital

Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust

UK

Disclosures

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

Disclosures

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

Disclosures

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.

Peer reviewers

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.

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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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