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Heart Attack (cont.)

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Author: Benjamin C. Wedro, MD, FAAEM

Editors: Daniel Lee Kulick, MD, FACC, FSCAI and Melissa Conrad Stöppler, MD

REFERENCE: eMedicine.com. Myocardial Infarction.
<http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/759321-overview>


Last Editorial Review: 2/25/2013

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