**Meet the editor**

Burak Pamukcu (MD) obtained a doctorate degree in Cardiology from Istanbul University Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey. Dr Pamukcu made his post doctorate fellowship (European Society of Cardiology Atherothrombosis Research Fellowship) in the University Department of Medicine, Centre for Cardiovascular Sciences, City Hospital, Birmingham, England, United

Kingdom. He is mainly interested in atherothrombosis, atherosclerotic heart vessel disease, antithrombotic therapy and interventional cardiology. Currently Dr Pamukcu is working as a Consultant Cardiologist and Associate Professor of Cardiology in Acibadem Healthcare Group. He has published 98 scientific publications and served as referee for more than thirty different medical journals indexed in SCI expanded. He is serving as associate editor and editorial board member at peer reviewed medical scientific journals.

Contents

**Preface VII**

**Section 1 Introductory Section 1**

Burak Pamukcu

Jemmi Priya

**Infarction 21**

Sumera Qazi

Mashayekhi

**Management 61**

Chapter 1 **Introductory Chapter: Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease 3**

**Myocardial Infarction 7**

**Myocardial Infarction 23**

**Section 4 Managemant of Myocardial Infarction 41**

Chapter 2 **Epidemiology of Myocardial Infarction 9**

**Section 3 Biochemical Markers in the Diagnosis of Myocardial**

**Section 2 Epidemiology of Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Diseases and**

Chapter 3 **The Diagnostic Value of Biochemical Cardiac Markers in Acute**

Chapter 4 **Interventional Therapies for Post-Cardiac Arrest Patients Suffering from Coronary Artery Disease 43**

Chapter 5 **Non-ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction: Diagnosis and**

Yaser Al Ahmad and Mohammed T. Ali

Michael Behnes, Philipp Kuche, Ibrahim Akin and Kambis

Shazia Rashid, Arif Malik, Rukhshan Khurshid, Uzma Faryal and

Joshua Chadwick Jayaraj, Karapet Davatyan, S.S. Subramanian and
