Validation and prognosis of coronary artery calcium scoring in nontriggered thoracic computed tomography: Systematic review and meta-analysis

Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 514-521

  Xie, Xueqian ^a   Zhao, Yingru ^a   De Bock, Geertruida H ^a   De Jong, Pim A ^b   Mali, Willem P ^b   Oudkerk, Matthijs ^a   Vliegenthart, Rozemarijn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Calcium score; Computed tomography; Meta analysis; Nontriggered cardiac imaging technique; Review; Systematic

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIFICATION; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIUM SCORE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VALIDATION STUDY;

CALCIUM SCORE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; META-ANALYSIS; NONTRIGGERED CARDIAC IMAGING TECHNIQUE; REVIEW, SYSTEMATIC;

AGED; CARDIAC-GATED IMAGING TECHNIQUES; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY AND COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VASCULAR CALCIFICATION;

EID: 84884488278     PISSN: 19419651     EISSN: 19420080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.113.000092     Document Type: Review

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