A patient is admitted with electrocardiogram changes suggestive of an acute myocardial infarction but has no elevated cardiac markers. The nurse realizes this patient would be diagnosed as having
1. stable angina
2. unstable angina
3. silent myocardial infarction
4. pending myocardial infarction
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Rationale: Patients with electrocardiogram changes suggestive of myocardial ischemia, but without the presence of serum biomarkers, are diagnosed as having unstable angina. There are no electrocardiogram changes associated with stable angina. Electrocardiogram changes and elevated cardiac markers would occur with a silent myocardial infarction. There is no way of knowing if this patient is going to have a myocardial infarction so a pending myocardial infarction is not correct.
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