title: [Recommendations of the ESC guidelines regarding cardiovascular imaging].
abstract: Cardiac imaging plays a key role in the diagnosis and risk stratification in the ESC guidelines for the management of patients with stable coronary artery disease. Demonstration of myocardial ischaemia guides the decision which further diagnostic and therapeutic strategy should be followed in these patients. One should, however, not forget that there are no randomised studies supporting this type of management. In patients with a low pretest probability coronary CT angiography is the optimal tool to exclude coronary artery stenoses rapidly and effectively. In the near future, however, better data is needed showing how much cardiac imaging is really necessary and how cost-effective it is in patients with stable coronary artery disease.
authors.affiliation: Robert-Bosch-Krankenhaus, Auerbachstr. 110, 70376, Stuttgart, Deutschland. udo.sechtem@rbk.de.
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Sechtem
authors.affiliation: Robert-Bosch-Krankenhaus, Auerbachstr. 110, 70376, Stuttgart, Deutschland.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Greulich
authors.affiliation: Robert-Bosch-Krankenhaus, Auerbachstr. 110, 70376, Stuttgart, Deutschland.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Ong
mesh_terms: D057791:Cardiac Imaging Techniques / Q000592:standards*; D002309:Cardiology / Q000592:standards*; D000072226:Computed Tomography Angiography / Q000592:standards*; D003324:Coronary Artery Disease / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D005060:Europe; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D006801:Humans; D007089:Image Enhancement / Q000592:standards; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D015899:Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon / Q000592:standards*
keywords: Cardiac imaging techniques; Coronary computed tomography angiography; Echocardiography; SPECT; Stable coronary artery disease