Cardiac markers: Centralized or decentralized testing?

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 11-12, 1999, Pages 1113-1117

  Plebani, Mario ^a   Zaninotto, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acute coronary syndromes; Acute myocardial infarction; Cardiac troponins; CK MB; Myoglobin; Near patient testing

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL MARKER; CREATINE KINASE MB; MYOGLOBIN; TROPONIN I; TROPONIN T;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; CONFERENCE PAPER; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DEVICE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0033391774     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/CCLM.1999.162     Document Type: Conference Paper

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