1. Epidemiology and historical perspectives / Peter Clemmensen and Kari Saunamaki -- 2. Prehospital diagnosis and management of acute myocardial infarction / Gilles Montalescot and Patrick Goldstein -- 3. Presentation of AMI : symptoms, examination, biomarkers, and atypical presentations / Christopher P. Moriates, Kabir J. Singh, and Alan S. Maisel -- 4. The definition of myocardial infarction / Kristian Thygesen, Joseph S. Alpert, and Allan S. Jaffe -- 5. Optimal reperfusion therapy : clinical trial evidence of primary angioplasty and (prehospital) fibrinolysis / Freek W.A. Verheugt -- 6. Adjunctive pharmacologic therapies / Gregory Ducrocq and Philippe Gabriel Steg -- 7. Primary percutaneous coronary intervention : role of stenting versus balloon angioplasty and drug-eluting stents versus bare metal stents : trial evidence and current concepts / Robert A. Byrne and Adnan Kastrati -- 8. Primary percutaneous coronary intervention : culprit-lesion only versus multivessel intervention / Thomas Pilgrim and Stephan Windecker -- 9. Management of mechanical complications of myocardial infarction : ventricular septal defect, mitral regurgitation, free-wall rupture / Imran Saeed and Marjan Jahangiri -- 10. Primary coronary angioplasty : the role of mechanical circulatory support / Luiz Alberto Mattos and Pedro Beraldo de Andrade.

11. Primary angioplasty : methods of reducing infarct size and reperfusion injury / Michael Gick, Jan Minners, and Franz-Josef Neumann -- 12. Primary angioplasty : the importance of time to reperfusion, door to balloon times, and how to reduce them / Atman P. Shah and William J. French -- 13. Systems of care for primary percutaneous coronary intervention / Abhiram Prasad -- 14. Utilization of facilitated and rescue angioplasty / Rajiv Gulati and Bernard J. Gersh -- 15. Opportunities and challenges of stem cell therapy : is there a role in AMI? / Barry H. Trachtenberg and Joshua M. Hare -- 16a. Primary angioplasty in health care delivery : the European model / Jacob Thorsted Sorensen, Christian Juhl Terkelsen, and Steen Dalby Kristensen -- 16b. Primary angioplasty in health care delivery : the North American model / Faisal Latif, Kintur Sanghvi, and Cindy L. Grines -- 16c. Primary angioplasty in health care delivery : the economics / Allan J. Wailoo -- 17. Special management of diabetic patients with STEMI / Salvatore Brugaletta and Manel Sabate -- 18. Role of surgery in acute myocardial infarction / Yasir Abu-Omar and David P. Taggart.