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- May 2009
CT Angiography Shown to Be Safe, Effective Screening Method for Ruling out Cardiovascular Disease
In the first long-term study to follow a large number of patients who have undergone emergency room computed tomography angiography…
» Read more - October 2008
Cost-Effectiveness in CT Angiography Confirmation of Internal Carotid Artery Occlusions
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…
» Read more - September 2007
Benefits of PET in Identifying Coronary Artery Disease
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…
» Read more - July 2007
Cost-Effectiveness in CT Angiography
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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