What is Acute coronary syndrome?
'''Acute coronary syndrome''' ('''ACS''') is a [[syndrome]] (a set of [[signs and symptoms]]) caused by low [[blood flow]] in the [[coronary artery|coronary arteries]] such that part of the [[cardiac muscle|heart muscle]].<ref name=NSTEMI2014>{{cite journal|last1=Amsterdam|first1=E. A.|last2=Wenger|first2=N. K.|last3=Brindis|first3=R. G.|last4=Casey|first4=D. E.|last5=Ganiats|first5=T. G.|last6=Holmes|first6=D. R.|last7=Jaffe|first7=A. S.|last8=Jneid|first8=H.|last9=Kelly|first9=R. F.|last10=Kontos|first10=M. C.|last11=Levine|first11=G. N.|last12=Liebson|first12=P. R.|last13=Mukherjee|first13=D.|last14=Peterson|first14=E. D.|last15=Sabatine|first15=M. S.|last16=Smalling|first16=R. W.|last17=Zieman|first17=S. J.|title=2014 AHA/ACC Guideline for the Management of Patients With Non-ST-Elevation Acute Coronary Syndromes: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines|journal=Circulation|date=23 September 2014|doi=10.1161/CIR.0000000000000134|pmid=25249585|volume=130|issue=25|pages=e344–e426|doi-access=free}}</ref> The most common symptom is [[chest pain]].<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Goodacre S, Pett P, Arnold J, Chawla A, Hollingsworth J, Roe D, Crowder S, Mann C, Pitcher D, Brett C |title=Clinical diagnosis of acute coronary syndrome in patients with chest pain and a normal or non-diagnostic electrocardiogram |journal=Emergency Medicine Journal |volume=26 |issue=12 |pages=866–870 |date=November 2009 |pmid=19934131 |doi=10.1136/emj.2008.064428 |url=http://emj.bmj.com/content/26/12/866.long |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170405172642/http://emj.bmj.com/content/26/12/866.long |archive-date=2017-04-05 |doi-access=free }}</ref> ACS causes [[troponin]] levels to rise. ==References== {{reflist}} {{med-stub}} [[Category:Syndromes]]