%0 Journal Article
%T Chest Pain of Uncertain Aetiology: Role of Contrast Enhanced Computed Tomography in the Emergency Department
%A Chris Sawh
%A Firas Yassin
%A Pankaj Garg
%J Archive of "The Open Cardiovascular Medicine Journal".
%D 2016
%R 10.2174/1874192401610010205
%X There is increasing role of computed tomographic (CT) in the assessment of acute chest pain in the emergency department especially when the diagnosis is not clear. We report a case where non ECG gated contrast enhanced CT in the emergency department for rule-out of pulmonary embolus guided to the actual diagnosis, which was, acute coronary event, as evidenced by the presence of perfusion defect
%K ACS
%K Contrast CT
%K MI
%K Perfusion defect
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5054506/