Clinical ResearchClinical TrialCoronary Computed Tomography Angiography for Early Triage of Patients With Acute Chest Pain: The ROMICAT (Rule Out Myocardial Infarction using Computer Assisted Tomography) Trial
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Key Words
cardiac CT
emergency department
acute chest pain
Abbreviations and Acronyms
ACS
acute coronary syndrome
AUC
area under the receiver-operating characteristics curve
CAD
coronary artery disease
CI
confidence interval
CT
computed tomography
CTA
computed tomography angiography
ECG
electrocardiogram
ED
emergency department
MACE
major adverse cardiac event(s)
MI
myocardial infarction
NPV
negative predictive value
OR
odds ratio
PPV
positive predictive value
SPECT
single-positron emission computed tomography
TIMI
Thrombolysis In Myocardial Infarction
UAP
unstable angina pectoris
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This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health (R01 HL080053) and in part supported by Siemens Medical Solutions and GE Healthcare. Drs. Rogers, Truong, Shapiro, and Moloo were supported by the National Institutes of Health grant T32HL076136. Dr. Hoffmann has received research grants from GE Healthcare and Siemens. Dr. Abbara has received research funding from Bracco and consulting honoraria (minor) from Ezem, Siemens, Partners Imaging, Magellan Health, Perceptive Informatics. Dr. Achenbach has received grant support from Siemens and Bayer Schering Pharma. Dr. Nagurney is funded by Biosite for a biomarker research study.
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