Emergency room triage of patients with acute chest pain by means of rapid testing for cardiac troponin T or troponin I

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 337, Issue 23, 1997, Pages 1648-1653

  Hamm, Christian W ^a   Goldmann, Britta U ^a   Heeschen, Christopher ^a   Kreymann, Georg ^a   Berger, Jürgen ^a   Meinertz, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATINE KINASE MB; TROPONIN I; TROPONIN T;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANGINA, UNSTABLE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHEST PAIN; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TRIAGE; TROPONIN; TROPONIN I; TROPONIN T;

EID: 0030664975     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199712043372302     Document Type: Article

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