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Abstract
The initial approach to patients with a chief complaint of chest pain is to rule out myocardial ischemia. There are, however, other life-threatening causes of chest pain, including pulmonary emobilism and aortic dissection among many others. This article reviews several of these disease processes.Entities:
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Year: 1998 PMID: 9889737 DOI: 10.1016/s0733-8627(05)70030-4
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Emerg Med Clin North Am ISSN: 0733-8627 Impact factor: 2.264