title: CT coronary angiography in low-risk, acute chest pain.
abstract: The ROMICAT-II trial shows that CT coronary angiography is safe and fast for the exclusion of clinically significant obstructive coronary artery disease in low-risk patients with acute chest pain. Several issues and questions relating to the low prevalence of disease and the actual benefit to patients remain to be answered.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, 's Gravendijkwal 230, 3015 CE Rotterdam, The Netherlands. filippocademartiri@gmail.com
authors.forename: Filippo
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Cademartiri
authors.forename: Erica
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Maffei
mesh_terms: D054058:Acute Coronary Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D000208:Acute Disease; D000465:Algorithms; D002637:Chest Pain / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D006801:Humans; D018570:Risk Assessment / Q000379:methods; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed