Impact of high-sensitivity cardiac troponin on use of coronary angiography, cardiac stress testing, and time to discharge in suspected acute myocardial infarction

European Heart Journal

Volumn 37, Issue 44, 2016, Pages 3324-3332a

  Twerenbold, Raphael ^a   Jaeger, Cedric ^a   Gimenez, Maria Rubini ^a   Wildi, Karin ^a   Reichlin, Tobias ^a   Nestelberger, Thomas ^a   Boeddinghaus, Jasper ^a   Grimm, Karin ^a   Puelacher, Christian ^a   Moehring, Berit ^a   Pretre, Gil ^a   Schaerli, Nicolas ^a   Campodarve, Isabel ^b   Rentsch, Katharina ^a   Steuer, Stephan ^c   Osswald, Stefan ^a   Mueller, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b HOSPITAL DEL MAR   (Spain)

^c LUZERNER KANTONSSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Angiography; Coronary artery disease; High sensitivity cardiac troponin; Myocardial infarction; Stress testing

Indexed keywords

TROPONIN T; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; TROPONIN;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIAC PATIENT; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY ARTERY RECANALIZATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; EMERGENCY PATIENT; EMERGENCY WARD; EXERCISE ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; OUTPATIENT; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS; HEART INFARCTION;

BIOMARKERS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TROPONIN;

EID: 85015728954     PISSN: 0195668X     EISSN: 15229645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehw232     Document Type: Article

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