Diagnostic strategies for the evaluation of chest pain clinical implications from SCOT-HEART and PROMISE

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 67, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 843-852

  Fordyce, Christopher B ^a   Newby, David E ^b   Douglas, Pamela S ^a  

^a DUKE CLINICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

angina pectoris; coronary artery disease; noninvasive cardiac imaging; patient selection

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR IMAGING; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL OUTCOME; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY ANGIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; EXERCISE TEST; FUNCTIONAL STRESS TEST; HUMAN; IMAGING; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LOW RISK PATIENT; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; THORAX PAIN; CARDIAC IMAGING; CHEST PAIN; COMPLICATION; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROCEDURES; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

CARDIAC IMAGING TECHNIQUES; CHEST PAIN; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; HUMANS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 85014837089     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: 15583597     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2015.11.055     Document Type: Review

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