Multimarker Panel to Rule Out Acute Coronary Syndromes in Low-risk Patients

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 803-806

  Mitchell, Alice M ^a   Garvey, Joseph Lee ^a   Kline, Jeffrey A ^a  

^a CAROLINAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

biological markers; chest pain; coronary artery disease; emergency treatment; evidence based medicine; myocardial ischemia

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; MYELOPEROXIDASE; TROPONIN T;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVENIENCE SAMPLE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; EMERGENCY WARD; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART DEATH; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVASCULARIZATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORAX PAIN;

ACUTE DISEASE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CHEMOKINE CCL2; CORONARY DISEASE; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE, BRAIN; PEROXIDASE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33745258658     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2006.03.553     Document Type: Article

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