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Heart attack

Date: July 1999

Definition:

Damage to any part of the heart muscle as a result of inadequate blood supply as evidenced by new electrocardiographic changes and by elevation of cardiac enzymes typical of a heart attack. (No requirement of typical chest pain.)

 

Definition update history:

Heart attack – of specified severity December 2023
Heart attack January 2019
Heart attack December 2015
Heart attack September 2013
Heart attack May 2012
Heart attack May 2011
Heart attack July 2009
Heart attack April 2007
Heart attack November 2003
Heart attack March 2003
Heart attack December 2002
Heart attack September 2002
Heart attack April 2002
Heart attack July 2001
Heart attack March 2001
Heart attack June 2000
Heart attack January 2000
Heart attack July 1999
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