Medscape

CCTA Leads to More Procedures, More Costs in Older Patients

November 24, 2011 (Stanford, California) - Coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) scans in older patients leads to more follow-up testing and downstream costs than stress testing, a new study ...
Science Daily

Compared to stress testing, patients who undergo CT angiography more likely to undergo subsequent invasive, more costly cardiac procedures

In an analysis of Medicare data of nearly 300,000 patients who underwent outpatient evaluation for coronary artery disease by either computed tomography (CT) angiography or stress testing, those who ...
Medscape

DeFACTO Result: CCTA, Standard Angiography Similarly Prognostic

TORRANCE, CA — The insights provided by coronary CT angiography (CCTA) are similar to what is available from quantitative coronary angiography (QCA), suggests a prospective comparative study that gave ...
TCTMD

CCTA Increases Contrast Volume in Patients With Prior CABG: GREECE Trial

PARIS, France—On top of invasive coronary angiography alone, performing coronary CT angiography (CCTA) first to evaluate hemodynamically stable patients with prior CABG does not lower but rather ...
MedPage Today

How Effective Is Coronary CTA for Evaluating Chest Pain?

Investigators in Denmark recently reviewed data on outcomes after CCTA for more than 110,000 patients who underwent the procedure between 2007 and 2017. Patients who were not diagnosed with myocardial ...
TCTMD

CT Angiography Is Increasing in England, but Downstream Tests Are Not

Ever since the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) gave priority to coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) as the test of choice for patients presenting with recent-onset ...
Open Heart

Patient radiation exposure during invasive graft surveillance after heart transplantation

Background Invasive procedures, including endomyocardial biopsy (EMB), right heart catheterisation (RHC) and coronary ...