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Abstract
Chest pain is the second most common emergency department (ED) presentation in the United States. Cardiac computed tomography angiography (CCTA) now plays an important role in the evaluation of patients with suspected acute coronary syndrome in the ED setting. In this article, we review the available techniques focused on the use of CCTA to evaluate patients fosr coronary atherosclerosis for timely triage of acute chest pain.Entities:
Keywords: Acute coronary syndrome; Atherosclerosis; Chest pain; Coronary CT angiography; Emergency department
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Year: 2015 PMID: 26342713 DOI: 10.1007/s10554-015-0763-2
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Int J Cardiovasc Imaging ISSN: 1569-5794 Impact factor: 2.357