0626T Intraprocedural coronary fractional flow reserve (FFR) with 3D functional mapping of color-hyphencoded FFR values for the coronary tree, derived from coronary angiogram data, for real-hyphentime review and interpretation of possible atherosclerotic stenosis(es) intervention (List separately in addi...
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New CAD was diagnosed when patients had either angiographic evidence of obstructive CAD on a CCTA (ie, >50% obstruction) and/or angiographic evidence of obstructive CAD on an invasive coronary angiogram (ie, >50% obstruction). If these data were not provided, new CAD was diagnosed if any ...
(e.g., stress testing or CT coronary angiogram) to risk stratify asymptomatic patients in either strategy was not included based on the cost-equivalence results in the EISNER study (22). Costs for treating acute and chronic CHD and stroke events was derived from estimations used in the ...
particularly myocardial infarction (MI) (10), and a recent 2018 paradigm-shifting New England Journal of Medicine publication showed 5-year hard outcomes that were clearly in favor of coronary CTA, with less invasive angiograms compared with standard of care after the 12-month follow-up point (...
Doesn't CAC scanning miss early, soft plaque which can be easily identified on a coronary CT angiogram (CCTA)? Yes, it does. The CCTA gives us a complete picture of the coronary arteries including soft and calcified plaque along with a good estimate of the degree of narrowing of the art...
Revascularization decision with FFR guid- ance has also been shown to be a sound strategy in terms of cost-benefits with significantly fewer stents implanted 1Department of Cardiology, Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, 210006, P.R. China. 2National Heart Research Institute...
cost-effectiveness analysisappropriatenessangiogramCONTEXT: Expert panels and decision-analytic techniques are increasingly used to determine the appropriateness of medical interventions, but these 2 approaches use different methods to process evidence. OBJECTIVE: To compare expert panel appropriateness ratings of...
Diagnosis of ischemia-causing coronary stenoses by noninvasive fractional flow reserve computed from coronary computed tomographic angiograms: Results from the prospective multicenter DISCOVER-FLOW (Diagnosis of Ischemia-Causing Stenoses Obtained Via Noninvasive Fractional Flow Reserve) study J Am Coll Cardi...
studied 26 patients with SSc, without cardiac symptoms and with normal coronary angiograms, and found that 79% of their patients had perfusion defects at thallium-201 scan [129]. In addition, myocardial scintigraphy enabled several authors to observe reversible myocardial perfusion defects, i...