Usefulness of exercise test in selected patients coming to the emergency department for acute chest pain

Italian Heart Journal

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 92-98

  Macor, Franco ^a   Cassin, Matteo ^a   Pitzorno, Cristina ^a   Dall'Armellina, Erica ^a   Carniel, Elisa ^a   Marcianò, Fortunato ^a   Dametto, Ermanno ^a   Bitto, Sandro ^a   Martin, Giovanni ^a   Antonini Canterin, Francesco ^a   Cervesato, Eugenio ^a   Burelli, Claudio ^a   Nicolosi, Gian Luigi ^a  

^a S MARIA DEGLI ANGELI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chest pain; Exercise test; Ischemic heart disease

Indexed keywords

CREATINE KINASE MB; TROPONIN I;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BICYCLE ERGOMETRY; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPLICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY RISK; DISEASE DURATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; EXERCISE TEST; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INJURY; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SELECTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; RUNNING; SAFETY; SATISFACTION; SURVIVAL; SYMPTOM; TIME; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; CHEST PAIN; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY STENOSIS; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; EXERCISE TEST; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL REVASCULARIZATION; PATIENT ADMISSION; PATIENT SELECTION; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037496206     PISSN: 1129471X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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