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01-06-2008 | original article
Chest pain in the emergency room: value of the HEART score
Authors:
A. J. Six, B. E. Backus, J. C. Kelder
Published in:
Netherlands Heart Journal
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Issue 6/2008
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Extract
Chest pain is one of the most common reasons for admitting patients to the emergency room. An acute coronary syndrome (ACS) needs to be distinguished from a variety of other cardiac and noncardiac diseases that cause chest pain. In certain cases, a diagnosis can be made quickly, in particular in the case of an acute transmural myocardial infarction. …