Adding Coronary Calcium Score to Exercise Treadmill Test: An Alternative to Refine Coronary Artery Disease Risk Stratification in Patients with Intermediate Risk Chest Pain

• Main Authors: Weiting Huang (Author), Zijuan Huang (Author), Natalie Si Ya Koh (Author), Jien Sze Ho (Author), Terrance Siang Jin Chua (Author), Swee Yaw Tan (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Ubiquity Press, 2020-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Introduction: Chest pain is a common symptom for cardiology referrals. The ACC-AHA guidelines recommend exercise stress electrocardiography (TMX) as the initial diagnostic test. However, the TMX only has moderate sensitivity and non-diagnostic cases may require further stress imaging studies. In thi...