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Article: Studies from University of Zurich provide new data on angiography.
- Article from:
- Heart Disease Weekly
- Article date:
- November 15, 2009
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"Reduction of radiation burden of multi-detector computed tomography coronary angiography (CTCA) has remained an important task. To compare effective radiation dose of low-dose 64-slice CTCA using prospective ECG-triggering versus diagnostic invasive coronary angiography (CA)," investigators in Zurich, Switzerland report (see also Angiography).
"42 patients referred for elective invasive CA owing to suspected coronary artery disease (CAD) were prospectively enrolled to undergo a low-dose CTCA without calcium scoring within the same day before CA. Dose-area product of diagnostic invasive CA and dose-length product of CTCA were measured, converted into effective ...