Combined cardiac marker approach with adjunct two-dimensional echocardiography to diagnose acute myocardial infarction in the emergency department

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-7

  Levitt, M A ^a   Promes, S B ^a   Bullock, S ^a   Disano, M ^a   Young, G P ^a   Gee, G ^a   Peaslee, D ^a  

^a ALAMEDA COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATINE KINASE MB; MYOGLOBIN;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE WALL MOTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0030071630     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0196-0644(96)70288-3     Document Type: Article

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