Vega CR, Vega JJ

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To the Editor:

Every year, around 1.7 million people are hospitalized in the United States of America for acute coronary syndromes, of whom three quarters (almost 1.3 million patients) suffer unstable angina or non-STsegment elevation acute myocardial infarction, and Cuba is not exempt from this statistic.
The appearance of ST-segment or T wave changes during symptoms and their normalization after symptoms disappear is diagnostic of non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndrome (NSTE-ACS)1; however, a normal electrocardiogram (ECG) in patients with chest pain does not exclude the possibility of NSTE-ACS. Isolated right ventricular or circumflex artery territory ischemia is not frequently reflected on a 12-lead ECG.

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