ACC/AHA Guidelines for Coronary Angiography. A report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (Committee on Coronary Angiography)

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  • Scanlon, Patrick J.
  • Faxon, David P.
  • Audet, Anne-Marie
  • Carabello, Blase
  • Dehmer, Gregory J.
  • Eagle, Kim A.
  • Legako, Ronald D.
  • Leon, Donald F.
  • Murray, John A.
  • Nissen, Steven E.
  • Pepine, Carl J.
  • Watson, Rita M.
  • Ritchie, James L.
  • Gibbons, Raymond J.
  • Cheitlin, Melvin D.
  • Gardner, Timothy J.
  • Garson, Arthur, Jr.
  • Russell, Richard O., Jr.
  • Ryan, Thomas J.
  • Smith, Sidney C., Jr.
    • Affiliation: School of Medicine, Department of Medicine
Abstract
  • "The ACC/AHA Task Force on Practice Guidelines herein revises and updates the original “Guidelines for Coronary Angiography,” published in 1987 (1). The frequent and still-growing use of coronary angiography, its relatively high costs, its inherent risks and the ongoing evolution of its indications have given this revision urgency and priority. The expert committee appointed included private practitioners and academicians. Committee members were selected to represent both experts in coronary angiography and senior clinician consultants. Representatives from the family practice and internal medicine professions were also included on the committee. The English-language medical literature was searched for the 10 years preceding development of the guidelines. The searches yielded >1,600 references that the committee reviewed for relevance. Evidence relative to the use of coronary angiography was compiled and evaluated by the committee. Whereas randomized trials are often available for reference in the development of treatment guidelines, randomized trials regarding the use of diagnostic procedures such as coronary angiography are rarely available (2). For development of these guidelines, when coronary angiography was a necessary procedure in describing a clinical subset or in choosing a course of treatment and that therapy was shown to have an advantage for the patient, especially in the context of a randomized trial, then the indication for angiography was given greater consideration than indications cited in less-rigorous evaluations of data."
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  • Journal of the American College of Cardiology
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  • 33
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  • 6
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  • 1756
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  • 1824
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  • English
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  • Postprint
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  • 0735-1097

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