Coronary artery disease continues to be a major cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States and throughout the world. This issue of the Heart Failure Clinics provides a contemporary and concise, yet extensive, review on all aspects of the management of patients with coronary artery disease. Topics include but are not limited to: Epidemiology, Traditional and Novel Risk Factors in Coronary Artery Disease; Acute Coronary Syndromes: Unstable Angina and Non-ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction; Calcium Scoring and Cardiac Computed Tomography; Coronary Artery Disease and Diabetes Mellitus; Cardiac Syndrome X; and Revascularization Options: Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery and Percutaneous Coronary Intervention.The 2013 Medicare relative value unit (RVU) for ETT is 2.48 (current procedural terminology [CPT] code 93015) versus an RVU for stress echo of 6.78 (CPT code 93351-6) and for stress SPECT 14.38 (CPT code 78452-6).54 The standard ETT anbsp;...
Title | : | Coronary Artery Disease, An Issue of Heart Failure Clinics, |
Author | : | David M. Shavelle |
Publisher | : | Elsevier Health Sciences - 2016-01-07 |
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