Acute resting myocardial perfusion imaging in patients with diabetes mellitus: results from the Emergency Room Assessment of Sestamibi for Evaluation of Chest Pain (ERASE Chest Pain) trial.

Author Department

Emergency Medicine

Document Type

Article, Peer-reviewed

Publication Date

7-1-2004

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Resting myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) improves the triage of patients presenting to the emergency department (ED) with symptoms suggestive of acute cardiac ischemia (ACI). In the ED setting the presence of diabetes mellitus (DM) is a pred

Publication ISSN

0008-5472

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