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Adopting the term acute myocardial injury to describe ischemic or nonischemic events in complex patients would appropriately narrow the definition of myocardial infarction.
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The authors propose adopting the term 'acute myocardial injury' to better distinguish nonischemic injury from true myocardial infarction and align with terminology used for other organs.
Alpert et al. (2016) studied this question. Adopting the term acute myocardial injury to describe ischemic or nonischemic events in complex patients would appropriately narrow the definition of myocardial infarction.