Research

• May 2009

  CT Angiography Shown to Be Safe, Effective Screening Method for Ruling out Cardiovascular Disease

  Society for Academic Emergency Medicine’s annual conference | Judd Hollander et al.

  In the first long-term study to follow a large number of patients who have undergone emergency room computed tomography angiography…

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• October 2008

  Cost-Effectiveness in CT Angiography Confirmation of Internal Carotid Artery Occlusions

  Amercan Society of Neuroimaging | Devin L. Brown et al.

  A Markov decision-analytic model was constructed to estimate the cost-effectiveness of CTA compared with catheter angiography in a hypothetical cohort of symptomatic patients with a screening examination…

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• September 2007

  Benefits of PET in Identifying Coronary Artery Disease

  Current Opinion in Cardiology | K. Lance Gould

  This review summarizes the evidence supporting cardiac positron emission tomography as a definitive, noninvasive, ‘one-stop’ test for routine management of coronary artery disease that is well validated…

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• July 2007

  Cost-Effectiveness in CT Angiography

  Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography | Jason H. Cole et al.

  The purpose of this study was to analyze the cost implications of CCTA before catheterization in patients with mildly abnormal or equivocal MPI scans. 206 Patients with mildly abnormal or equivocal MPI scans…

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