title: Assessment of chest pain in the emergency room: what is the role of multidetector CT?
abstract: Chest pain is one of the most frequent complaints for patients seen in the emergency department. The current article describes the clinical stratification of patients who present to the emergency department with chest pain and discusses imaging options and analysis for these patients. It reviews conventional imaging approaches to assessing chest pain including chest radiography and stress testing. The main discussion focuses on the potential utility use of cross-sectional imaging, particularly multidetector CT, in the evaluation of chest pain in the emergency department.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 22 S. Greene St., Baltimore, MD 21201, USA. cwhite@umm.edu
authors.forename: Charles
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: White
authors.forename: Katrina
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Read
authors.forename: Dick
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Kuo
mesh_terms: D002114:Calcinosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D002637:Chest Pain / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology; D003287:Contrast Media; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D015899:Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D003287:Contrast Media