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Point of Care Clinical Risk Score to Improve the Negative Diagnostic Utility of an Agatston Score of Zero: Averting the Need for Coronary Computed Tomography Angiography.

Document type:
Article; Journal Article
Author(s):
Alshahrani, Ali M; Mahmood, Hamza; Wells, George A; Hossain, Alomgir; Rybicki, Frank J; Achenbach, Stephan; Al-Mallah, Mouaz H; Andreini, Daniele; Bax, Jeroen J; Berman, Daniel S; Budoff, Matthew J; Cademartiri, Filippo; Callister, Tracy Q; Chang, Hyuk-Jae; Chinnaiyan, Kavitha; Cury, Ricardo C; DeLago, Augustin; Feuchtner, Gudrun; Hadamitzky, Martin; Hausleiter, Joerg; Kaufmann, Philipp A; Kim, Yong-Jin; Leipsic, Jonathon A; Maffei, Erica; Marques, Hugo; Pontone, Gianluca; Raff, Gilbert; Rubinsh...     »
Abstract:
BACKGROUND: Coronary artery calcification is a marker of underlying atherosclerotic vascular disease. The absence of coronary artery calcification is associated with a low prevalence of obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD), but it cannot be ruled out completely. We sought to develop a clinical tool that can be added to Agatston score of zero to rule out obstructive CAD with high accuracy. METHODS: We developed a clinical score retrospectively from a cohort of 4903 consecutive patients with...     »
Journal title abbreviation:
Circ Cardiovasc Imaging
Year:
2019
Journal volume:
12
Journal issue:
9
Fulltext / DOI:
doi:10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.118.008737
Pubmed ID:
http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31526300
Print-ISSN:
1941-9651
TUM Institution:
Institut für Radiologie
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