Reply to letter regarding article, high-sensitivity troponin t concentrations in acute chest pain patients evaluated with cardiac computed tomographyg

Circulation

Volumn 123, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Januzzi Jr , James L ^a   Truong, Quynh A ^a   Mohammed, Asim A ^a   Bamberg, Fabian ^b   Nichols, John H ^b   Schlett, Christopher L ^b   Hoffmann, Udo ^b   Lee, Hang ^c   Nagurney, John T ^d   Karakas, Mahir ^e   Koenig, Wolfgang ^e  

^a Division of Cardiology   (United States)

^b Cardiac MR PET CT Program   (United States)

^c Biostatistics Center   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TROPONIN T;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HUMAN; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX PAIN;

EID: 78751627164     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: 15244539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.110.967224     Document Type: Letter

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