Outcomes of Anatomical versus Functional Testing for Coronary Artery Disease

In a trial involving 10,003 patients with suspected coronary artery disease, clinical outcomes at 2 years were not improved with an initial strategy of CT angiography, as compared with functional testing (exercise ECG, nuclear stress testing, or stress echocardiography). New-onset, stable chest pain...

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Published in:	The New England journal of medicine Vol. 372; no. 14; pp. 1291 - 1300
Main Authors:	Douglas, Pamela S, Hoffmann, Udo, Patel, Manesh R, Mark, Daniel B, Al-Khalidi, Hussein R, Cavanaugh, Brendan, Cole, Jason, Dolor, Rowena J, Fordyce, Christopher B, Huang, Megan, Khan, Muhammad Akram, Kosinski, Andrzej S, Krucoff, Mitchell W, Malhotra, Vinay, Picard, Michael H, Udelson, James E, Velazquez, Eric J, Yow, Eric, Cooper, Lawton S, Lee, Kerry L
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States Massachusetts Medical Society 02.04.2015
Subjects:	Aged Angina Angina, Unstable - epidemiology Angiography Cardiac Catheterization Cardiovascular disease Catheterization Chest Pain - etiology Clinical trials Computed tomography Coronary Angiography - adverse effects Coronary Angiography - methods Coronary artery Coronary Artery Disease - diagnosis Diagnostic tests Dyspnea Echocardiography Echocardiography, Stress - adverse effects EKG Electrocardiography Exercise Test Female Follow-Up Studies Heart diseases Humans Kaplan-Meier Estimate Male Medical diagnosis Middle Aged Mortality Myocardial infarction Myocardial Infarction - epidemiology Pain Respiration Tomography, X-Ray Computed
ISSN:	0028-4793, 1533-4406
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