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Myocardial infarction

Prevalence
Clinical features
Differential diagnosis
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Therapy

There is no clear benefit from hirudin d

Why?

  • It is not clearly more effective than heparin at reducing death, reinfarction or severe heart failure, nor less likely to cause severe bleeding d

Expiry date: November 2003
Levels of Evidence used in grading these guides

Author   CM   Ball , N   Shenker
Reviewer   S   Straus
CAT Writers   CJ   Wotton , N   Shenker , B   Phillips , CM   Ball