Testing of low-risk patients presenting to the emergency department with chest pain: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association

EA Amsterdam, JD Kirk, DA Bluemke, D Diercks… - Circulation, 2010‏ - ahajournals.org
The management of low-risk patients presenting to emergency departments is a common
and challenging clinical problem entailing 8 million emergency department visits annually …

ACCF/ACR/AHA/NASCI/SAIP/SCAI/SCCT 2010 expert consensus document on coronary computed tomographic angiography: a report of the American College of …

DB Mark, DS Berman, MJ Budoff, JJ Carr… - Journal of the American …, 2010‏ - jacc.org
The writing committee consisted of acknowledged experts in the field of CTA, as well as a
liaison from the ACCF Task Force on Clinical ECDs, the oversight group for this document …

The HEART Pathway randomized trial: identifying emergency department patients with acute chest pain for early discharge

SA Mahler, RF Riley, BC Hiestand… - … quality and outcomes, 2015‏ - ahajournals.org
Background—The HEART Pathway is a decision aid designed to identify emergency
department patients with acute chest pain for early discharge. No randomized trials have …

Diagnostic and prognostic value of absence of coronary artery calcification

A Sarwar, LJ Shaw, MD Shapiro, R Blankstein… - JACC: Cardiovascular …, 2009‏ - jacc.org
Objectives: In this study, we systematically assessed the diagnostic and prognostic value of
absence of coronary artery calcification (CAC) in asymptomatic and symptomatic individuals …

Cardiac PET imaging for the detection and monitoring of coronary artery disease and microvascular health

TH Schindler, HR Schelbert, A Quercioli… - JACC: Cardiovascular …, 2010‏ - jacc.org
Positron emission tomography (PET) myocardial perfusion imaging in concert with tracer-
kinetic modeling affords the assessment of regional myocardial blood flow (MBF) of the left …

Coronary computed tomography angiography for early triage of patients with acute chest pain: the ROMICAT (Rule Out Myocardial Infarction using Computer Assisted …

U Hoffmann, F Bamberg, CU Chae, JH Nichols… - Journal of the American …, 2009‏ - jacc.org
Objectives: This study was designed to determine the usefulness of coronary computed
tomography angiography (CTA) in patients with acute chest pain. Background: Triage of …

64-Slice computed tomography angiography in the diagnosis and assessment of coronary artery disease: systematic review and meta-analysis

G Mowatt, JA Cook, GS Hillis, S Walker, C Fraser, X Jia… - Heart, 2008‏ - heart.bmj.com
Context: Coronary artery disease (CAD) is a major cause of mortality and ill health.
Objective: To assess whether 64-slice CT angiography might replace some coronary …

Cardiac computed tomography: indications, applications, limitations, and training requirements: report of a Writing Group deployed by the Working Group Nuclear …

S Schroeder, S Achenbach, F Bengel… - European heart …, 2008‏ - academic.oup.com
As a consequence of improved technology, there is growing clinical interest in the use of
multi-detector row computed tomography (MDCT) for non-invasive coronary angiography …

Feasibility of noninvasive assessment of thin-cap fibroatheroma by multidetector computed tomography

M Kashiwagi, A Tanaka, H Kitabata, H Tsujioka… - JACC: Cardiovascular …, 2009‏ - jacc.org
Objectives: The purpose of this study was to investigate whether multidetector computed
tomography (MDCT) can noninvasively help assess thin-cap fibroatheroma (TCFA) …

Coronary computed tomography angiography as a screening tool for the detection of occult coronary artery disease in asymptomatic individuals

EK Choi, SI Choi, JJ Rivera, K Nasir, SA Chang… - Journal of the American …, 2008‏ - jacc.org
Objectives: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of occult coronary
artery disease (CAD) with coronary computed tomography angiography (CTA) to …