Prognostic value of 2D echocardiography in patients presenting with acute chest pain and non-diagnostic ECG for ST-elevation myocardial infarction

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 84, Issue 2-3, 2002, Pages 217-225

  Muscholl, Michael W ^a   Oswald, Monika ^a   Mayer, Christian ^a   Von Scheidt, Wolfgang ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

2D echo; Chest pain; Troponin I

Indexed keywords

TROPONIN I;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DEATH; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; ST SEGMENT DEPRESSION; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; THORAX PAIN; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHEST PAIN; CHOLESTEROL, LDL; CREATINE KINASE; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIAL REVASCULARIZATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; SEX FACTORS; TROPONIN I; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0036074001     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-5273(02)00144-4     Document Type: Article

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