关键词：2007ESC 心肌梗死 编者按：欧洲心脏病学会和美国心脏病学会在1999年召集了一次全会为了联合重新定义急性心梗（刊登在2000年欧洲心脏病杂志和美国心脏病学会的杂志上）。本文主要介绍的是心肌梗死的新的诊断与评估。

      Defining a disease is a process that enables clinicians and clinical scientists to label patients—some would call it “making a diagnosis”. Labeling a patient with a specific diagnosis has important implications for that individual with respect to his or her relationship to the medical community and to the rest of society. For example, placing a diagnosis of myocardial infarction on a patient changes that individual’s ability to perform certain jobs, e.g., airline pilot. Unfortunately, clinicians and clinical scientists often define the same disease differently. Thus, characteristics used to