Multidetector CT coronary angiography for patient triage to invasive coronary angiography: Performance and cost in ambulatory patients with equivocal or suspected inaccurate noninvasive stress tests

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 497-502

  Menon, Madhav ^a   Lesser, John R ^a   Hara, Hidehiko ^a   Birkett, Richard ^a   Knickelbine, Thomas ^a   Longe, Terry ^a   Flygenring, Bjorn ^a   Henry, Jason ^a   Schwartz, Robert ^a  

^a MINNEAPOLIS HEART INSTITUTE FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Angiography; Coronary; Diagnostic cardiac; Imaging (CT MR)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; COST CONTROL; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EXERCISE TEST; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE COST; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; OUTPATIENT CARE; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PREDICTION; PROGNOSIS; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREADMILL EXERCISE;

AGED; AMBULATORY CARE; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; COST SAVINGS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, STRESS; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HOSPITAL COSTS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 65549136357     PISSN: 15221946     EISSN: 1522726X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ccd.21816     Document Type: Article

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