Adding clinical risk factors and a coronary artery calcium (CAC) score to the conventional diagnostic algorithm for chest pain improves the prediction and discrimination of patients with suspected ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In suspected obstructive CAD, clinical models with risk factors and a coronary artery calcium score identified ...

When evaluating a patient with stable chest pain and no known coronary artery disease (CAD), how does the clinician decide whether to order imaging or other diagnostic tests? One approach involves a ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In patients with stable chest pain and intermediate pretest probability of CAD, risk for major adverse CV events ...

June 14, 2012 (Rotterdam, the Netherlands) — An international group of researchers has developed what they say is an improved model for predicting the presence of coronary artery disease (CAD) in ...

For people with stable chest pain and an intermediate pretest probability of obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD), an initial CT strategy fared similarly to invasive coronary angiography (ICA) ...

Researchers compared the estimation of the presence of disease by primary care clinicians and an expert panel. Primary care clinicians overestimate the probability of disease before and after ...