Questionable necessity of nitroglycerin for diagnostic coronary artery examination using 320-row multi-detector computed tomography.

CONCLUSIONS: Despite the recommendation of routine nitroglycerin use for subjects undergoing computed tomography for coronary artery angiography, our results showed no significant advantage of its use in improving image quality and rate of diagnosis accuracy. PMID: 32741800 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Journal of X-Ray Science and Technology - Category: Radiology Tags: J Xray Sci Technol Source Type: research