Wednesday, September 13, 2006

CT Angiography Warrants Paradigm Shift in Nuclear Cardiology

ASNC: CT Angiography Warrants Paradigm Shift in Nuclear Cardiology - CME Teaching Brief® - MedPage Today: "'The first test in the future of the evaluation of the patient, be it symptomatic or asymptomatic, will be a CTA rather than a stress test because it's more accurate, provides more information, and avoids patients having unnecessary cardiac catheterizations which follows in a substantial number of patients who undergo stress testing because of the high false positive rate,'"

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