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21488392

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
285
pubmed:dateCreated
2011-4-13
pubmed:abstractText
Cardiac CT scanning is the only non-invasive test capable of defining coronary anatomy and evaluating the degree and severity of coronary stenoses. We studied its application at La Tour hospital in Geneva: 108 patients had a cardiac CT scan in 2009. The main indication was the investigation of chest pain in patients with an intermediate risk profile. We confirmed that cardiac CT scanning tends to overestimate lesion severity, particularly when heavy calcification is present but has an excellent negative predictive value. Thanks to decreasing radiation exposure with new protocols and machines, cardiac CT scanning is fast becoming a useful option to evaluate coronary disease, especially when the pre-test probability is intermediate and/or functional testing is non conclusive.
pubmed:language
fre
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
1660-9379
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
9
pubmed:volume
7
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
533-4, 536-8
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2011
pubmed:articleTitle
[Coronary CT scanning in routine clinical practice].
pubmed:affiliation
Département cardiovasculaire, Hôpital de La Tour, Avenue J.-D. Maillard, 3 1217 Meyrin, Genève. coralie.blanche@hcuge.ch
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, English Abstract