Prognostic significance of coronary artery calcium scoring and single-photon emission computed tomographic myocardial perfusion imaging on major adverse cardiac events in patients at low risk for suspected coronary artery disease.

CONCLUSIONS: CACS and SPECT provided both independent and compensatory prognostic information for risk of MACE in patients at low risk of suspected CAD. Our findings strongly support adding a CACS testing in addition to SPECT in asymptomatic patients to better define the risk of cardiac events during follow-up. PMID: 30507290 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30507290?dopt=Abstract

Source: Acta Cardiologica - December 8, 2018 Category: Cardiology Tags: Acta Cardiol Source Type: research