Who has myocardial ischemia?
The list of patients with myocardial ischemia and silent myocardial ischemia is a list of patients with all forms of ischemic heart disease, including stable angina, unstable angina, variant angina, post-infarction angina, cardiac arrest survivors, cardiac transplantation patients, patients after coronary angioplasty, patients after coronary bypass surgery, patients with multiple risk factors, and some patients with diabetes. If one looks carefully at these patients using an ambulatory ECG or exercise testing, most patients with any manifestation of symptomatic myocardial ischemia will have silent myocardial ischemia (Table 2) [2].
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