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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

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 only mi...

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Autores principales: Gaibazzi, Nicola, Pastorini, Guido, Biagi, Andrea, Tafuni, Francesco, Buffa, Claudia, Garibaldi, Silvia, Boffetti, Francesca, Benatti, Giorgio
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5800005/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29402323
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12947-017-0119-2