Elevated CK-MB with a normal troponin does not predict 30-day adverse cardiac events in emergency department chest pain observation unit patients

Critical Pathways in Cardiology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 14-19

  Safdar, Basmah ^a   Bezek, Sarah K ^b   Sinusas, Albert J ^c   Russell, Raymond R ^c   Klein, Matthew R ^d   Dziura, James D ^a,e   D'Onofrio, Gail ^a  

^a Departments of Emergency Medicine   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Baylor College of Medicine   (United States)

^d BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adverse events; Biomarkers; Discordant; MB fraction; Observation unit

Indexed keywords

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHEST PAIN; COHORT STUDIES; CREATINE KINASE, MB FORM; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; TROPONIN;

EID: 84894448600     PISSN: 1535282X     EISSN: 15352811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/HPC.0000000000000001     Document Type: Article

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