High-sensitivity troponin assays and the early rule-out of acute myocardial infarction

Heart

Volumn 99, Issue 21, 2013, Pages 1549-1550

  Shah, Anoop S V ^a   Newby, David E ^a   Mills, Nicholas L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TROPONIN;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ALGORITHM; CAUSE OF DEATH; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EDITORIAL; EMERGENCY WARD; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; REFERENCE VALUE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARDIZATION; THORAX PAIN;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; TROPONIN I; TROPONIN T;

EID: 84885163963     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: 1468201X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/heartjnl-2013-304033     Document Type: Editorial

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