Cardiac CT in the assessment of acute chest pain in the emergency department

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 193, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 397-409

  Bastarrika, Gorka ^a   Thilo, Christian ^a   Headden, Gary F ^a   Zwerner, Peter L ^a   Costello, Philip ^a   Schoepf, U Joseph ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute chest pain; Acute coronary syndrome; Coronary artery disease; CT; Triple rule out

Indexed keywords

ANTILIPEMIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CALCIUM; CONTRAST MEDIUM; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; HEART ENZYME;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ACUTE DISEASE; ALGORITHM; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTRON BEAM TOMOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; HOSPITAL COST; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION; RADIATION DOSE; REVIEW; SCINTISCANNING; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORAX PAIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREADMILL EXERCISE; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION;

ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; CHEST PAIN; CORONARY DISEASE; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 68249153636     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.08.2265     Document Type: Review

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