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 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 ...

(UPDATED) A statistical deep dive into the EXCEL trial, one that also includes evidence from other revascularization studies in the setting of left main coronary artery disease, shows that there is ...

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 ...

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) ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “In the United States, once patients at low risk for [acute coronary syndrome] are admitted for observation or ...

Although women seeing a physician for the first time with suspected heart disease experience the same classic symptoms as men — like chest pain and shortness of breath — differences between the sexes ...