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RecentAdvances Cardiology-I: Treatment of myocardial infarction, unstable angina, and angina pectoris John McMurray, Andrew Rankin In the past 12 months there have been many advances in our understanding of how to treat heart disease. In the first part of this two part review we summarise the most important of these advances in the treatment of myocardial infarction, unstable angina, and angina pectoris. A glossary of study abbreviations is given in the appendix.

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