Table 1.

4th universal definition of myocardial infarction.

Acute myocardial infarction includes the following criteria:

Acute myocardial injury with clinical evidence of acute myocardial ischemia, and With detection of a rise and/or fall of cardiac troponin with at least one value above the 99th percentile upper reference limit, and With at least one of the following: - Symptoms of myocardial ischemia - New ischemic changes on electrocardiogram - Development of pathological Q waves - Imaging evidence of new loss of viable myocardium or regional wall motion abnormality in a pattern consistent with an ischemic etiology - The identification of a coronary thrombus by angiography or autopsy

Reference: Thygesen et al. (2018) [10].