CT ‘safe alternative’ to coronary angiography for CAD diagnosis

In patients with stable chest pain and intermediate pretest probability of CAD, risk for major adverse CV events was similar after CT or invasive coronary angiography, with fewer procedure-related complications with an initial CT strategy.
Invasive coronary angiography (ICA) is the reference standard for detection of CAD; however, CT may effectively reduce the approximately 2 million negative ICAs in Europe, Marc Dewey, MD, Heisenberg Professor of Radiology at the German Research Foundation and vice chair of the department of radiology at Charité University Medicine in Berlin, and

In patients with stable chest pain and intermediate pretest probability of CAD, risk for major adverse CV events was similar after CT or invasive coronary angiography, with fewer procedure-related complications with an initial CT strategy.
Invasive coronary angiography (ICA) is the reference standard for detection of CAD; however, CT may effectively reduce the approximately 2 million negative ICAs in Europe, Marc Dewey, MD, Heisenberg Professor of Radiology at the German Research Foundation and vice chair of the department of radiology at Charité University Medicine in Berlin, and