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Comparative Study
Utility of stress echocardiography in the triage of patients with atypical chest pain from the emergency department.
- P J Colon, J S Guarisco, J Murgo, and J Cheirif.
- Department of Cardiology, Ochsner Medical Foundation, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
- Am. J. Cardiol. 1998 Nov 15; 82 (10): 1282-4, A10.
AbstractWe followed 108 patients presenting to the emergency department with atypical chest pain and triaged with stress echocardiography. One-year cardiac event-free survival was 100% with a negative stress echocardiogram and 25% with a positive study.
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