For people with stable chest pain and an intermediate pretest probability of obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD), an initial CT strategy fared similarly to invasive coronary angiography (ICA) ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Coronary CTA is as useful as direct invasive coronary angiography when evaluating stable chest pain. Coronary CT ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Quality of life and angina burden were similar after CT or invasive angiography for CAD diagnosis. Women ...

For patients with CAD, coronary computed tomography angiography fractional flow reserve (FFR-CT) is prognostic for adverse outcomes.

"These extended and sustained benefits appear to be primarily driven by a reduction in the rate of non-fatal MI, suggesting that the principal benefit of CCTA [coronary CT angiography] is driven by ...

For patients with diabetes and stable coronary artery disease, use of CT angiography is associated with fewer adverse cardiovascular events when compared with screening that employs functional stress ...

Multislice CT scanners show promise for the noninvasive detection of coronary stenosis. Rapid improvements in technology mean that newer-generation spiral CT scanners are capable of higher spatial and ...

Coronary CT angiography for the suspected progression of known coronary artery disease in a 60-year-old female patient. Curved multiplanar reconstructions with 0.6- (yellow outline), 0.4- (blue ...

When a patient complains about chest pain, diagnosis will usually involve catheter angiography to evaluate the adequacy of blood supply to the heart. Researchers have now established that, in certain ...

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