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Clinical characteristics, aetiology and occurrence of type 2 acute myocardial infarction

Filip M. Szymański, Grzegorz Karpiński, Anna E. Płatek, Franciszek Majstrak, Anna Szymańska, Marcin Kotkowski, Bartosz Puchalski, Krzysztof J. Filipiak‬, Grzegorz Opolski

Kardiologia Polska · 2013 · 63 citations · 16 references

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Type 2 AMI patients were more often female, and they were more often diagnosed as non-ST-segment elevation MI. The prevalence of classical cardiovascular risk factors in this subgroup of patients was very high. The leading cause of AMI was coronary artery spasm.

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