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Markers of Myocardial Injury in the Evaluation of the Emergency Department Patient with Chest Pain

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In recent years, the approach used in the evaluation of the emergency department (ED)* patient with suspected myocardial ischemia has undergone dramatic changes. Data-gathering, treatment, and disposition patterns that had been accepted for decades are now being intensely scrutinized and often abandoned in favor of assessment protocols based on new diagnostic technologies (1). Foremost among these new technologies are the many new methods for the laboratory measurement of markers of myocardial injury.

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Green, G.B., Green, S.F. (1998). Markers of Myocardial Injury in the Evaluation of the Emergency Department Patient with Chest Pain. In: Wu, A.H.B. (eds) Cardiac Markers. Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1806-7_4

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