What Will it Take to Retire Invasive Coronary Angiography?

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Armin Arbab-Zadeh. JACC Cardiovasc Imaging. 2016 May.

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. 2016 May;9(5):565-7.

doi: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2015.09.013. Epub 2016 Feb 17.

¹ Department of Medicine/Cardiology Division, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. Electronic address: azadeh1@jhmi.edu.

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Keywords: coronary CT; coronary angiography; diagnostic accuracy; fractional flow reserve; multidetector computed tomography.

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