Assessment of patients with low-risk chest pain in the emergency department: Head-to-head comparison of exercise stress echocardiography and exercise myocardial SPECT

American Heart Journal

Volumn 149, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 894-901

  Conti, Alberto ^a,b   Sammicheli, Lucia ^a   Gallini, Chiara ^a   Costanzo, Egidio Natalino ^a   Antoniucci, David ^a   Barletta, Giuseppe ^a  

^a CAREGGI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; TROPONIN I;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EXERCISE ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE COST; HEART MUSCLE INJURY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STRESS; THORAX PAIN;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHEST PAIN; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, STRESS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RISK FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 19344367156     PISSN: 00028703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ahj.2004.09.048     Document Type: Article

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