The prognostic value of markers of inflammation in patients with troponin T-negative chest pain before discharge from the emergency department

American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 115, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 521-528

  Bholasingh, Radha ^a   Cornel, Jan H ^b   Kamp, Otto ^c   Van Straalen, Jan P ^a   Sanders, Gerard T ^a   Dijksman, Lea ^a   Tijssen, Jan G P ^a   De Winter, Robbert J ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Location Alkmaar   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CREATINE KINASE MB; TROPONIN T;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EMERGENCY WARD; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART DEATH; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; THORAX PAIN;

EID: 0242329879     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2003.08.006     Document Type: Article

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