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Traumatic myocardial injury is a rare complication after blunt chest injury.The most common symptom is nonspecific chest pain, followed by ventricular premature beat and bundle branch block, with slight elevation of myocardial necrosis markers, which should be differentiated from acute myocardial infarction.One case of traumatic myocardial injury misdiagnosed as acute myocardial infarction was received in our hospital, except for acute myocardial infarction after corresponding examination.This kind of patients should be concerned by professional doctors, especially the elderly patients, who are more complicated with basic cardiovascular diseases, should be paid more attention in clinical work.
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Objective To explore the correlation between serum growth differentiation factor‐15(GDF‐15) level and acute myocardial infarction(AMI) to provide a basis for the prognostic evaluation of AMI .Methods Totally 192 Han patients with AMI (AMI group) and non‐coronary heart disease (NCHD ,NCHD group) diagnosed in Chengde Municipal Central Hospital from Sep‐tember 2013 to January 2015 ,were selected and their clinical data were collected .The biochemical markers and serum GDF‐15 level were detected .Results Comparing the AMI group with the NCHD group ,differences in the patients′age ,smoking ,blood glucose (Glu) ,TC ,TG ,LDL‐C levels had statistical significance (P<0 .05);the serum GDF‐15 level in the AMI group was significantly higher than that in the NCHD ;serum GDF‐15 level was positively correlated with TC ,LDL‐C ,hs‐CRP and Glu in the AMI group . Conclusion The increase of serum GDF‐15 level is obviously correlated AMI ,therefore GDF‐15 can serve as an indicator for moni‐toring myocardial infarction .