Adding Coronary Computed Tomography Angiography to Invasive Coronary Angiography Improves Prediction of Cardiac Events
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Can coronary computed tomography angiography replace invasive angiography? Coronary computed tomography angiography cannot replace invasive angiography.
O ne million patients undergo invasive coronary angiogra-phy (CA) in the United States every year. 1 In view of its invasive nature and related costs, noninvasive imaging of coronary imaging has the theoretical appeal to improve comfort for patients, reduce cost, and refine patient selection to limit invasive procedures to patients requiring treatment for ischemic coronary artery disease (CAD)....
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عنوان ژورنال: Circulation Journal
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1346-9843,1347-4820
DOI: 10.1253/circj.cj-14-0743