Comparison of exercise treadmill testing with cardiac computed tomography angiography among patients presenting to the emergency room with chest pain: The rule out myocardial infarction using computer-assisted tomography (ROMICAT) study

Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 233-242

  Blankstein, Ron ^a   Ahmed, Waleed ^d   Bamberg, Fabian ^d   Rogers, Ian S ^d   Schlett, Christopher Lothar ^d   Nasir, Khurram ^b   Fontes, Joao ^c   Tawakol, Ahmed ^d   Brady, Thomas J ^d   Nagurney, John T ^d   Hoffmann, Udo ^d   Truong, Quynh A ^d  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c FRAMINGHAM HEART STUDY   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular CT; Coronary artery disease; Exercise testing; Stress testing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIAC IMAGING; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DUKE TREADMILL SCORE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENESCENCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; THORAX PAIN; TIME; TREADMILL EXERCISE; WORKLOAD; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; BLOOD; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EXERCISE TEST; HEART INFARCTION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIOGRAPHY; RISK; RISK FACTOR; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; TROPONIN;

ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BOSTON; CHEST PAIN; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; ODDS RATIO; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TROPONIN;

EID: 84860814429     PISSN: 19419651     EISSN: 19420080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.111.969568     Document Type: Article

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