One-hour rule-out and rule-in of acute myocardial infarction using high-sensitivity cardiac troponin T

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 172, Issue 16, 2012, Pages 1211-1218

  Reichlin, Tobias ^a,b   Schindler, Christian ^c   Drexler, Beatrice ^a   Twerenbold, Raphael ^a   Reiter, Miriam ^a   Zellweger, Christa ^a   Moehring, Berit ^a   Ziller, Ronny ^a   Hoeller, Rebeca ^a   Rubini Gimenez, Maria ^a   Haaf, Philip ^a   Potocki, Mihael ^a   Wildi, Karin ^a   Balmelli, Cathrin ^a   Freese, Michael ^a   Stelzig, Claudia ^a   Freidank, Heike ^a   Osswald, Stefan ^a   Mueller, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TROPONIN T;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL RATE; THORAX PAIN; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS; VALIDATION STUDY;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; CHEST PAIN; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TROPONIN T;

EID: 84866103717     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinternmed.2012.3698     Document Type: Article

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