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CCTA More Positive Patient Experience Than MPI
Patients who undergo coronary CT angiography receive lower radiation doses and are more pleased with the experience than with MPI.
Coronary CT angiography (CCTA) performed on patients with acute chest pain provides lower radiation dose and yielded fewer unpleasant experiences among the patients than SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI), according to a study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
Researchers from Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx, New York, performed a randomized, controlled, comparative effectiveness trial in order to compare CCTA with conventional noninvasive testing.
A total of 400 patients with acute chest pain, mean age 57, participated in the study:
• 54% of patients were Hispanic
• 37% were African-American
• 63% were women
The results showed that the CCTA and MPI groups did not significantly differ in outcomes or resource utilization over 40 months:
“More patients in the CCTA group graded their experience favorably and would undergo the examination again,” the authors wrote.
The Reading Room: Racial and Ethnic Minorities, Cancer Screenings, and COVID-19
November 3rd 2020In this podcast episode, Dr. Shalom Kalnicki, from Montefiore and Albert Einstein College of Medicine, discusses the disparities minority patients face with cancer screenings and what can be done to increase access during the pandemic.
