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Patients with chest pain represent a heterogeneous group in terms of diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment. Echocardiography is widely used in the emergency department to perform the differential diagnosis of chest pain, to stratify the risk, to determine the prognosis, and to guide the choice between medical and surgical therapy.

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  1. Department of Cardiology, San Raffaele Hospital, Milan, Italy

    Michele Oppizzi & Rachele Contri

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  1. Ospedale Santa Maria Nuova, Reparto di Terapia Intensiva, Azienda Sanitaria di Firenze, Piazza S.Maria Nuova 1, Firenze, 50123, Italy

    Armando Sarti

  2. , Dipartimento di Anestesia e Rianimazione, Az. Osp. Ospedali Riuniti di Bergamo, Via Delle Cave 31/c, Bergamo, 24127, Italy

    F. Luca Lorini

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Oppizzi, M., Contri, R. (2013). Chest Pain. In: Sarti, A., Lorini, F. (eds) Echocardiography for Intensivists. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-2583-7_33

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