Electrocardiographic changes and false-positive troponin I in a patient with acute cholecystitis

Case Reports in Gastroenterology

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 410-414

  Demarchi, Marco Stefano ^a   Regusci, Luca ^a   Fasolini, Fabrizio ^a  

^a Ospedale Beata Vergine   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Acute cholecystitis; Electrocardiographic changes; Rise in troponin; ST elevation

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CEPHALOSPORIN; CREATINE KINASE; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; METRONIDAZOLE; TROPONIN I;

ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS; ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; AGED; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG MEGADOSE; ECHOGRAPHY; ENZYME BLOOD LEVEL; EPIGASTRIC PAIN; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER DISEASE; GALLBLADDER DISTENSION; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; T WAVE; UPPER ABDOMINAL PAIN;

EID: 84866719646     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16620631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000339965     Document Type: Article

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