Cardiac CT for the triage of acute chest pain: Ready for clinical use?

[1] Udelson J.E., Beshansky J.R., Ballin D.S., Et al., Myocardial perfusion imaging for evaluation and triage of patients with suspected acute ischemia: a randomized controlled trial, Jama, 288, pp. 2693-2700, (2002)

[2] Georgiou D., Budoff M.J., Kaufer E., Et al., Screening patients with chest pain in the emergency department using electron beam tomography: a follow-up study, J Am Coll Cardiol, 38, pp. 105-110, (2001)

[3] Gallagher M.J., Ross M.A., Raff G.L., Et al., The diagnostic accuracy of 64-slice computed tomography coronary angiography compared with stress nuclear imaging in emergency department low-risk chest pain patients, Ann Emerg Med, 49, pp. 125-136, (2007)

[4] Rubinshtein R., Halon D.A., Gaspar T., Et al., Usefulness of 64-slice cardiac computed tomographic angiography for diagnosing acute coronary syndromes and predicting clinical outcome in emergency department patients with chest pain of uncertain origin, Circulation, 115, pp. 1762-1768, (2007)

[5] Goldstein J.A., Gallagher M.J., O'Neill W.W., Et al., A randomized controlled trial of multi-slice coronary computed tomography for evaluation of acute chest pain, J Am Coll Cardiol, 49, pp. 863-871, (2007)

[6] Bassand J.P., Hamm C.W., Et al., Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes, Eur Heart J, 28, pp. 1598-1660, (2007)

[7] Leber A.W., Knez A., White C.W., Et al., Composition of coronary atherosclerotic plaques in patients with acute myocardial infarction and stable angina pectoris determined by contrast-enhanced multislice computed tomography, Am J Cardiol, 91, pp. 714-718, (2003)

[8] Hoffmann U., Moselewski F., Nieman K., Et al., Noninvasive assessment of plaque morphology and composition in culprit and stable lesions in acute coronary syndrome and stable lesions in stable angina by multidetector computed tomography, J Am Coll Cardiol, 47, pp. 1655-1662, (2006)

[9] Motoyama S., Kondo T., Sarai M., Et al., Multislice computed tomographic characteristics of coronary lesions in acute coronary syndromes, J Am Coll Cardiol, 50, pp. 319-326, (2007)

[1] Udelson J.E., Beshansky J.R., Ballin D.S., Et al., Myocardial perfusion imaging for evaluation and triage of patients with suspected acute ischemia: a randomized controlled trial, Jama, 288, pp. 2693-2700, (2002)

[2] Georgiou D., Budoff M.J., Kaufer E., Et al., Screening patients with chest pain in the emergency department using electron beam tomography: a follow-up study, J Am Coll Cardiol, 38, pp. 105-110, (2001)

[3] Gallagher M.J., Ross M.A., Raff G.L., Et al., The diagnostic accuracy of 64-slice computed tomography coronary angiography compared with stress nuclear imaging in emergency department low-risk chest pain patients, Ann Emerg Med, 49, pp. 125-136, (2007)

[4] Rubinshtein R., Halon D.A., Gaspar T., Et al., Usefulness of 64-slice cardiac computed tomographic angiography for diagnosing acute coronary syndromes and predicting clinical outcome in emergency department patients with chest pain of uncertain origin, Circulation, 115, pp. 1762-1768, (2007)

[5] Goldstein J.A., Gallagher M.J., O'Neill W.W., Et al., A randomized controlled trial of multi-slice coronary computed tomography for evaluation of acute chest pain, J Am Coll Cardiol, 49, pp. 863-871, (2007)

[6] Bassand J.P., Hamm C.W., Et al., Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes, Eur Heart J, 28, pp. 1598-1660, (2007)

[7] Leber A.W., Knez A., White C.W., Et al., Composition of coronary atherosclerotic plaques in patients with acute myocardial infarction and stable angina pectoris determined by contrast-enhanced multislice computed tomography, Am J Cardiol, 91, pp. 714-718, (2003)

[8] Hoffmann U., Moselewski F., Nieman K., Et al., Noninvasive assessment of plaque morphology and composition in culprit and stable lesions in acute coronary syndrome and stable lesions in stable angina by multidetector computed tomography, J Am Coll Cardiol, 47, pp. 1655-1662, (2006)

[9] Motoyama S., Kondo T., Sarai M., Et al., Multislice computed tomographic characteristics of coronary lesions in acute coronary syndromes, J Am Coll Cardiol, 50, pp. 319-326, (2007)