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Evaluation of Chest Pain and Myocardial Ischemia

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About 1% of all outpatient visits are related to chest pain, and of these patients, 1.5% will have unstable angina or an acute myocardial infarction. Chest pain represents a wide spectrum of disease, from benign to life-threatening conditions. The primary care provider has an essential role in the initial evaluation of such patients with a focus on a quick rule out of potential life-threatening conditions and further appropriately triaging the patient. The evaluation of patients with stable symptoms should focus on risk assessment for coronary artery disease and appropriate downstream noninvasive stress testing.

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  1. Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Thorsten M. Leucker, Steven R. Jones & Seth S. Martin

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Leucker, T.M., Jones, S.R., Martin, S.S. (2019). Evaluation of Chest Pain and Myocardial Ischemia. In: Toth, P., Cannon, C. (eds) Comprehensive Cardiovascular Medicine in the Primary Care Setting. Contemporary Cardiology. Humana Press, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97622-8_9

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