Equivocal tests after contrast stress-echocardiography compared with invasive coronary angiography or with CT angiography: CT calcium score in mildly positive tests may spare unnecessary coronary angiograms

Equivocal tests after contrast stress-echocardiography compared with invasive coronary angiography or with CT angiography: CT calcium score in mildly positive tests may spare unnecessary coronary angiograms

Abstract Background Imaging stress tests are not ideally accurate to predict anatomically obstructive CAD, leading to a non-trivial rate of unnecessary iCA. This may depend on the threshold used to indicate iCA, and maybe CTA or, one step earlier, CT calcium score could spare most unnecessary iCA in...

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Main Authors: Nicola Gaibazzi, Guido Pastorini, Andrea Biagi, Francesco Tafuni, Claudia Buffa, Silvia Garibaldi, Francesca Boffetti, Giorgio Benatti
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-02-01
Series:Cardiovascular Ultrasound
Subjects:
Stress-echocardiography
Computed tomography angiography
Coronary artery disease
Equivocal tests
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12947-017-0119-2

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