The Value of Cardiac Enzymes in Elderly Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department with Syncope

Journals of Gerontology - Series A Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences

Volumn 58, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1055-1058

  Grossman, Shamai A ^a   Van Epp, Sara ^a   Arnold, Ryan ^a   Moore, Richard ^a   Lee, Lily ^a   Shapiro, Nathan I ^a   Wolfe, Richard E ^a   Lipsitz, Lewis A ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATINE KINASE; HEART ENZYME; TROPONIN I;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; CARDIOVASCULAR SYMPTOM; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CORONARY RISK; CREATINE KINASE BLOOD LEVEL; DEMENTIA; ECG ABNORMALITY; EMERGENCY WARD; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HEART DEATH; HEART LEFT ANTERIOR BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL RECORD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; ST SEGMENT; SYNCOPE; T WAVE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

EID: 0344585327     PISSN: 10795006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gerona/58.11.m1055     Document Type: Review

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