RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Biomarkers in the emergency workup of chest pain: Uses, limitations, and future
JF Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
JO Cleve Clin J Med
FD Cleveland Clinic
SP 589
OP 598
DO 10.3949/ccjm.80a.12112
VO 80
IS 9
A1 Wassim Mosleh
A1 Husam Abdel-Qadir
A1 Michael Farkouh
YR 2013
UL http://www.ccjm.org/content/80/9/589.abstract
AB When patients present with chest pain, their levels of cardiac biomarkers are only one piece of the clinical picture, albeit an important one. Together with the history, physical examination, and electrocardiography (ECG), these levels help estimate the probability that the patient is experiencing an acute coronary syndrome and will have an adverse clinical outcome.