Many factors - including changing epidemiology of coronary artery disease, earlier diagnosis, and more effective treatment - have radically altered the management of patients with acute myocardial infarction and the emergence of therapy aimed at acute reperfusion has heralded an era of profound change. There has been an explosion of data about diagnosis, pathophysiology, characterization of clinical subgroups, and treatment of patients with acute myocardial infarction. This edition includes new chapters on women and acute myocardial infarction; cardiac rehabilitations, and exercise training; risk factor modification; after myocardial infarction; and myocardial infarction in the elderly.
