论文信息 - Coronary calcium remains an effective filter for invasive angiography.

Coronary calcium remains an effective filter for invasive angiography.

Gottlieb et al. ([1][1]) question the current guidelines in regard to coronary calcium scoring (CCS) in symptomatic persons and suggest their small study trumps 25 years of published literature. Coronary artery calcium (CAC) guidelines are written based on >1,000 studies, including several that were

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