Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Stress Perfusion Imaging for Evaluation of Patients With Chest Pain.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Stress cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) has demonstrated excellent diagnostic and prognostic value in single-center studies.

Objectives

This study sought to investigate the prognostic value of stress CMR and downstream costs from subsequent cardiac testing in a retrospective multicenter study in the United States.

Methods

In this retrospective study, consecutive patients from 13 centers across 11 states who presented with a chest pain syndrome and were referred for stress CMR were followed for a target period of 4 years. The authors associated CMR findings with a primary outcome of cardiovascular death or nonfatal myocardial infarction using competing risk-adjusted regression models and downstream costs of ischemia testing using published Medicare n

SUBMITTER: Kwong RY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8109181 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature