[Use of multislice CT in the evaluation of patients with acute chest pain]
T Schertler, G Feuchtner, T Frauenfelder, H Alkadhi & Sebastian Leschka
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abstract
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Acute chest pain is a common symptom but triage decisions in these
patients remain a challenge. Patient's history, cardiac enzyme
levels, or electrocardiograms often are unspecific. Nowadays,
multidetector-row computed tomography (CT) currently represents the
imaging modality of choice for diagnosing or excluding pulmonary
embolism (PE) or acute aortic syndrome (AAS). Furthermore, recent
studies have demonstrated advantages for non-invasive imaging of the
coronary arteries by CT. The so called triple rule-out CT allows the
depiction of the pulmonary arteries, the thoracic aorta, and the
coronary arteries within a single examination with a simultaneous
attenuation of these three vessel territories. This enables the
detection of life-threatening such as PE, AAS and ACS, as well as of
non-life-threatening diseases causing acute chest pain.
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citation
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Schertler T, Feuchtner G, Frauenfelder T, Alkadhi H, Leschka S. [Use
of multislice CT in the evaluation of patients with acute chest
pain]. Praxis (Bern 1994) 2010; 99:545-52.
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type
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journal paper/review (Translation2::getLang(): unknown language "".
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date of publishing
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28-4-2010
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journal title
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Praxis (Bern 1994) (99/9)
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ISSN print
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1661-8157
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pages
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545-52
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PubMed
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20449822
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DOI
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10.1024/1661-8157/a000104
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