TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hamada Rabea Ghanem
AU  - Amr Abdelaziz Elfaramawy , 
AU  - Bassem Mohamed Abdelhamid, 
AU  - Wafaa Anwar Elaroussy, 
TI  - A head-to-head comparison of the coronary calcium score by computed tomography with myocardial perfusion imaging in predicting coronary artery disease in Egyptian patients / 
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Cairo : 
PB  - Hamada Rabea Ghanem , 
KW  - Computd tomography
KW  - Coronary calcification
KW  - SPECT
N1  - Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Cardiology; Issued also as CD
N2  - Quantifying the amount of CAC with non-enhanced CT scans has been widely accepted as a reliable non-invasive technique for screening patients with a potential risk of developing major cardiac events, and is usually quantified using the Agatston score.⁽²{u⁰²BE}⁴⁾̕̕̕ The clinical application of CAC scoring has been supported by evidence showing that the absence of calcium reliably excludes obstructive coronary artery stenosis,(5)and that the amount of CAC is a strong predictor for risk assessment of myocardial infarction and sudden cardiac death, independent of conventional coronary risk factors.⁽⁶{u⁰²BE}⁷⁾ However, its predictive value is, at the end, determined by the patients' symptoms. In symptomatic patients, CAC scoring is considered as being only marginally related to the degree of coronary stenosis, and it is well known that both obstructive and non-obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD) can occur in the absence of calcification.⁽⁸{u⁰²BE}⁹⁾
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