Tag Archives: cardiologist opinion
July 2018 Br J Cardiol 2018;25:107–9 doi:10.5837/bjc.2018.019
Opinions on the expanding role of CTCA in patients with stable chest pain and beyond: a UK survey
Saad Fyyaz, Alexandros Papachristidis, Jonathan Byrne, Khaled Alfakih
Introduction The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) released an updated guideline on stable chest pain in 2016.1 It marked a radical departure from the 2010 NICE and European Society of Cardiology (ESC) guidelines.2 They recommended that the pre-test probability risk score should not be used as it over-estimated the likelihood of coronary artery disease (CAD) and that all patients with chest pain, typical or atypical, should be investigated with computed tomography (CT) coronary angiography (CTCA) in the first instance. Functional imaging tests were reserved for the assessment of patients with chest pain and known CAD,
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