Clinical use of ischemic markers and echocardiography in the emergency department

Echocardiography

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 187-192

  Muttreja, Manoj R ^b   Mohler III, Emile R ^a  

^a PENN PRESBYTERIAN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Emergency; Ischemia; Myocardial infarction; Troponin

Indexed keywords

TROPONIN T;

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; HEART ANEURYSM; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

EID: 0033038201     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.1999.tb00803.x     Document Type: Article

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