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 ...

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 ...

October 28, 2011 (Los Angeles, California) — The methods commonly used to estimate the pretest likelihood of coronary disease in patients referred for computed-tomography angiography (CTA) greatly ...

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 ...

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) ...

As technology offers more tools to help diagnose heart disease, you may need to adjust your approach. Here’s the latest on one of those new tools. One of the greatest challenges facing primary-care ...