[Acute chest pain: a purely clinical problem or a question for radiology?]. / Der akute Thoraxschmerz, ein rein klinisches Problem oder radiologische Fragestellung?
Radiologe
; 48(5): 448-56, 2008 May.
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ABSTRACT
Acute chest pain represents a very common clinical occurrence and at the same time poses a severe diagnostic dilemma. It can be due to an acute life-threatening event such as acute cardiac infarct, or a relatively harmless condition of pain and illness (e.g. vertebrogenic pain) under the main symptom category of acute chest pain. This often unclear symptomatic, behind which there can always be a life-threatening disease leads to an exaggerated grouping of patients into emergency cases and to an increased number of inpatients for observation. The diagnosis of acute coronary syndrome with no initial ECG changes typical for ischemia is especially problematic. The availability of modern multidetector computed tomography is becoming increasingly more important for radiologists in the diagnosis and clarification of acute chest pain. In this article the clinical difficulties and radiology options for the diagnosis of patients with acute chest pain will be presented and possible future algorithms for diagnosis will be discussed.
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Asunto principal:
Dolor en el Pecho
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Tomografía Computarizada por Rayos X
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Angiografía Coronaria
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Síndrome Coronario Agudo
Tipo de estudio:
Diagnostic_studies
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Humans
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De
Revista:
Radiologe
Año:
2008
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Article