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Equivocal tests after contrast stress-echocardiography compared with invasive coronary angiography or with CT angiography: CT calcium score in mildly positive tests may spare unnecessary coronary angiograms.

Nicola GaibazziGuido PastoriniAndrea BiagiFrancesco TafuniClaudia BuffaSilvia GaribaldiFrancesca BoffettiGiorgio Benatti
Published in: Cardiovascular ultrasound (2018)
Our data suggest iCA should be indicated only for more-than-mild reversible WMA at cSE, due to the very high positive predictive value for CAD of this finding, while mildly positive tests should be shifted to non-invasive CT, with CTA performed only for coronary calcium Agatston score > 100, since lower scores demonstrated very high negative predictive value for CAD, not justifying proceeding to CTA and even less to iCA.
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