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Cardiac CT for the assessment of chest pain: Imaging techniques and clinical results
Cardiac CT for the assessment of chest pain: Imaging techniques and clinical results EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF RADIOLOGY Becker, H., Johnson, T. 2012; 81 (12): 3675-3679Abstract
Immediate and efficient risk stratification and management of patients with acute chest pain in the emergency department is challenging. Traditional management of these patients includes serial ECG, laboratory tests and further on radionuclide perfusion imaging or ECG treadmill testing. Due to the advances of multi-detector CT technology, dedicated coronary CT angiography provides the potential to rapidly and reliably diagnose or exclude acute coronary artery disease. Life-threatening causes of chest pain, such as aortic dissection and pulmonary embolism can simultaneously be assessed with a single scan, sometimes referred to as "triple rule out" scan. With appropriate patient selection, cardiac CT can accurately diagnose heart disease or other sources of chest pain, markedly decrease health care costs, and reliably predict clinical outcomes. This article reviews imaging techniques and clinical results for CT been used to evaluate patients with chest pain entering the emergency department.
View details for DOI 10.1016/j.ejrad.2011.05.038
View details for Web of Science ID 000311340800004
View details for PubMedID 21798681