European Heart Journal Advance Access originally published online on September 3, 2007
European Heart Journal 2007 28(19):2305-2306; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm348
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Replacing diagnostic catheterization with coronary CT angiography: the final frontier
1 Department of Radiology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
2 Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
* Corresponding author. Tel: +1 843 792 2633; fax: +1 843 792 0275. E-mail address: schoepf@musc.edu
This editorial refers to Diagnostic accuracy of dual-source multi-slice CT: coronary angiography in patients with an intermediate pretest likelihood for coronary artery disease by A. Leber et al., on page 2354
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Since the inception of coronary multi-detector-row computed tomography (MDCT) angiography a decade ago, authors of scholarly articles worldwide have hypothesized, theorized, and prophesied, that non-invasive coronary CT angiography (CTA) will largely replace invasive diagnostic coronary catheterization in the near future. Even in the early days, with limited technology, such as 4-slice or 16-slice CT, there was sound reason for this belief. Comparison of 4-slice coronary CTA with invasive coronary
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