Cost-Effectiveness of Cardiac Biomarkers as Screening Test in Acute Chest Pain

Introduction: Acute chest pain is an important and frequently occurring symptom in patients. Chest pain is often a sign of ischemic heart disease. Associated findings of electrocardiograph (ECG) are rather heterogeneous, and traditional cardiac biomarkers such as Creatine Kinase-MB (CK-MB) suffer fr...

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Main Authors: Samad Shams-Vahdati, Zahra Vand-Rajavpour, Seyed-Pouya Paknezhad, Reza Piri, Elnaz Moghaddasi-Ghezeljeh, Saba Mirabolfathi, Mohammad Naghavi-Behzad
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Tabriz University of Medical Sciences 2014-03-01
Series:Journal of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Research
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Online Access:http://journals.tbzmed.ac.ir/JCVTR/PDF/JCVTR-6-29.pdf