Low Diagnostic Yield of Elective Coronary Angiography

Abstract

In this study, slightly more than one third of patients without known disease who underwent elective cardiac catheterization had obstructive coronary artery disease. Better strategies for risk stratification are needed to inform decisions and to increase the diagnostic yield of cardiac catheterization in routine clinical practice.

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MedicineOdds ratioCoronary artery diseaseInternal medicineCardiologyCardiac catheterizationDiabetes mellitusStenosisConfidence interval

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Year: 2010
Type: article
Volume: 362
Issue: 10
Pages: 886-895
Citations: 1586
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                                    Manesh R. Patel, 
                                
                                    Eric D. Peterson, 
                                
                                    David Dai
                                
                                et al.
                            
                            (2010). 
                            Low Diagnostic Yield of Elective Coronary Angiography. 
                            New England Journal of Medicine
                            , 362
                            (10)
                            , 886-895.
                            https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmoa0907272
                        

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DOI: 10.1056/nejmoa0907272