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ArticleJournal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology2017

Coronary artery calcium score as a gatekeeper in the non-invasive evaluation of suspected coronary artery disease in symptomatic patients.

Elsemiek M Engbers, Jorik R Timmer, Jan Paul Ottervanger

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Article in Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Focal myocardialQuantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2024
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  3. Coronary artery calcium score and pre-test probabilities as gatekeepers to predict and rule out perfusion defects in positron emission tomography.Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology · 2023
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  4. Staged testing as a solution to the challenges of testing lower risk patients.Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology · 2020
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  8. Coronary artery calcium scanning in symptomatic patients: Ready for use as a gatekeeper for further testing?Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology · 2017
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Elsemiek M EngbersDepartment of Cardiology, Isala, Dokter van Heesweg 2, 8025 AB, Zwolle, The Netherlands. elsemiekengbers@gmail.com.
Jorik R TimmerDepartment of Cardiology, Isala, Dokter van Heesweg 2, 8025 AB, Zwolle, The Netherlands.
Jan Paul OttervangerDepartment of Cardiology, Isala, Dokter van Heesweg 2, 8025 AB, Zwolle, The Netherlands.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

CalciumComputed Tomography AngiographyCoronary AngiographyCoronary Artery DiseaseCoronary VesselsHumansMyocardial Perfusion ImagingPrognosisCalcium

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PMID28150157

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