Implications of 25% to 50% coronary stenosis with cardiac computed tomographic angiography in ED patients

American Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 597-605

  Miller, Chadwick D ^a   Litt, Harold I ^b   Askew, Kim ^a   Entrikin, Daniel ^a   Carr, J Jeffrey ^a   Chang, Anna Marie ^b   Kilkenny, Jane ^a   Weisenthal, Benjamin ^b   Hollander, Judd E ^b  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; METOPROLOL;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; CARDIAC IMAGING; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART DEATH; HEART DISEASE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHARMACOLOGIC STRESS TESTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SAMPLE SIZE; SCORING SYSTEM; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SYMPTOM; THROMBOLYSIS IN MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION RISK SCORE; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY STENOSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY;

EID: 84861130090     PISSN: 07356757     EISSN: 15328171     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajem.2011.02.015     Document Type: Article

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