What have we learned from CONFIRM? Prognostic implications from a prospective multicenter international observational cohort study of consecutive patients undergoing coronary computed tomographic angiography

Journal of Nuclear Cardiology

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 787-795

  Otaki, Yuka ^a   Arsanjani, Reza ^a   Gransar, Heidi ^a   Cheng, Victor Y ^a,b   Dey, Damini ^a,b   Labounty, Troy ^a   Lin, Fay Y ^c   Achenbach, Stephan ^d   Al Mallah, Mouaz ^e   Budoff, Matthew J ^f   Cademartiri, Filippo ^g,h   Callister, Tracy Q ⁱ   Chang, Hyuk Jae ^j   Chinnaiyan, Kavitha ^k   Chow, Benjamin J W ^l   Delago, Augustin ^m   Hadamitzky, Martin ⁿ   Hausleiter, Joerg ⁿ   Kaufmann, Philipp ^o   Maffei, Erica ^g,h   Raff, Gilbert ^k   Shaw, Leslee J ^p   Villines, Todd C ^q   Dunning, Allison ^c   Cury, Ricardo C ^r   Feuchtner, Gudrun ^s   Kim, Yong Jin ^t   Leipsic, Jonathon ^u   Berman, Daniel S ^a,b   Min, James K ^a,b   more..

^a CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^e WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^g Giovanni XXIII Hospital   (Italy)

^h ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

ⁱ Tennessee Heart and Vascular Institute   (United States)

^j Yonsei University Health System   (South Korea)

^k WILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^m Capitol Cardiology Associates   (United States)

ⁿ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^o UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^p EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^q WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^r BAPTIST CARDIAC AND VASCULAR INSTITUTE   (United States)

^s INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^t Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^u UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

more..

Author keywords

Coronary artery disease; Coronary CT angiography; Prognosis

Indexed keywords

ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE REGISTRY; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL TIME;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; ANGIOGRAPHY; COHORT STUDIES; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK; ROC CURVE; SEX FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 84865086334     PISSN: 10713581     EISSN: 15326551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12350-012-9582-1     Document Type: Review

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