Technetium 99-m sestamibi imaging in the patient with cocaine associated chest pain; alternative to routine CCU admissions
โ Scribed by Nicholson, Christopher S.; Kontos, Michael C.; Tatum, James L.; Ornato, Joseph P.; Jesse, Robert L.
- Book ID
- 123395079
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 148 KB
- Volume
- 27
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1558-3597
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## A. S t o w e r s , M D Background. Patients in the emergency department with typical chest pain and a normal or nondiagnostic electrocardiogram have a 10% to 20% risk of nonfatal myocardial infarction. These patients can be stratified into groups of very low and very high risk for inpatient adv
## Study objective: The purpose of this study was to determine if thallium-201 myocardial planar imaging and technetium-99m first-pass radienuclide angiography, performed in the emergency department, could predict which patients with acute chest pain and nondiagnostic ECGs were more likely to have