Preventive Management of Nonobstructive CAD After Coronary CT Angiography in the Emergency Department.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This study sought to assess medical management of patients found to have nonobstructive coronary artery disease (CAD) on coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) performed in the emergency department (ED).

Background

Contemporary recognition and management of nonobstructive CAD discovered on CCTA performed in the ED is unknown.

Methods

Patients undergoing CCTA in the authors' hospital's ED between November 2013 and March 2018 who also received primary care within the authors' health system were studied. All patients with nonobstructive CAD, defined as 1% to 49% maximum luminal stenosis on CCTA, were included, along with a control group without CAD in a 1 case:1 control fashion. Ten-year atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) risk prior to CCT

SUBMITTER: Honigberg MC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6954346 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature