Long-term risk of death, cardiac events and recurrent chest pain in patients with acute chest pain of different origin

Cardiology (Switzerland)

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 60-66

  Launbjerg, Jeppe ^a   Fruerguard, Per ^a   Hesse, Birger ^a,b   Jorgensen, Frank ^b   Elsborg, Lars ^a   Petri, Anne ^b  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^b HILLERØD HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Angina pectoris; Chest pain; Chest wall syndromes; Coronary artery disease; Gastro oesophageal disorder; Prognosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; AORTA DISSECTING ANEURYSM; AORTA STENOSIS; ARTICLE; DUODENOSCOPY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS MANOMETRY; ESOPHAGUS PH; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; GASTROSCOPY; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HERPES ZOSTER; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERICARDITIS; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK; THORAX PAIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THORAX WALL;

EID: 0029656139     PISSN: 00086312     EISSN: 14219751     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000177061     Document Type: Article

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