Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT00352937
Comparison of Cardiac Computed Tomography for the Detection of Coronary Artery Disease With Nuclear Stress Test
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- —
- Study type
- Observational
- Enrollment
- 98 (actual)
- Sponsor
- Providence VA Medical Center · Federal
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 18 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
To compare the efficacy of 16-row multi-detector CT (MDCT) with standard myocardial perfusion imaging in detecting coronary artery disease (CAD) in patients without a previously established diagnosis of CAD.
Detailed description
Nuclear stress testing is currently the established non-invasive modality in detecting flow-obstructing coronary artery disease (CAD). Recently, multi-detector CT (MDCT) has emerged as a new modality that offers a non-invasive means to directly visualize coronary anatomy and any CAD. Studies have shown that MDCT has excellent sensitivity and a high negative predictive value in detecting significant CAD. The purpose of this study is to compare MDCT with nuclear stress testing for detecting CAD in previously undiagnosed patients.
Conditions
Timeline
- Start date
- 2006-03-01
- Primary completion
- 2009-12-01
- Completion
- 2009-12-01
- First posted
- 2006-07-17
- Last updated
- 2014-05-15
Locations
1 site across 1 country: United States
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT00352937. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.