Elizabeth Dodd wrote:
> yes, that does cover our meaning - i get interesting summaries with > interesting abbreviations - of most of which I have to guess the meaning. > and then they don't relate to pathology but to some interesting nuance of > diagnosis - implying that the writers have no concept of pathology related to > diagnostic tools. > here I'm actually thinking of a NON-STEMI. > No, Jon, it won't parse into anything. > I think they really mean a subendocardial infarction. No, subendocardial means you don't get Q-waves, a distinction which doesn't seem to mean much anymore. non-STEMI in practice is a "biochemical infarct", pathologically the area of infarction is too small to detectably alter the ECG, however they can still cause fatal arrhythmias. Ian _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
