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CT Evaluation of Chest Pain: Acute Coronary Syndrome and Acute Aortic Syndrome

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Diseases of the Chest and Heart 2015–2018

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Abstract

Chest pain is a common presenting symptom among patients visiting emergency departments (EDs) in the US and is responsible for over 5.5 million visits annually second only to abdominal pain [1]. However, the number of patients ultimately diagnosed with an acute coronary syndrome (ACS), either ST-elevation myocardial infarction (MI), unstable angina, or a non-ST elevation MI, is <20% [2]. The prevalence of acute aortic chest pain is one to two orders of magnitude less than chest pain due to ACS [3]. For every 130 patients with ACS, there is only one patient with an aortic cause of chest pain.

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Fleischmann, D., Hoffmann, U. (2015). CT Evaluation of Chest Pain: Acute Coronary Syndrome and Acute Aortic Syndrome. In: Hodler, J., von Schulthess, G.K., Kubik-Huch, R.A., Zollikofer, C.L. (eds) Diseases of the Chest and Heart 2015–2018. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-5752-4_15

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