Usefulness of contrast stress-echocardiography or exercise- electrocardiography to predict long-term acute coronary syndromes in patients presenting with chest pain without electrocardiographic abnormalities or 12-hour troponin elevation

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 161-167

  Gaibazzi, Nicola ^a   Reverberi, Claudio ^a   Badano, Luigi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TROPONIN;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIAC PATIENT; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; ECG ABNORMALITY; EVENT FREE SURVIVAL; EXERCISE ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART DEATH; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LOG RANK TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; THORAX PAIN; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; AGED; CHEST PAIN; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, STRESS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; ITALY; MALE; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TROPONIN;

EID: 78650875195     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2010.08.066     Document Type: Article

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