New methods needed to ID cardiac catheterization candidates

Wednesday, March 10, 2010 - 19:07 in Health & Medicine

It's time to re-think how patients are selected for cardiac catheterization, say doctors at Duke University Medical Center, after reporting in a new study that the invasive procedure found no significant coronary artery disease in nearly 60 percent of chest pain patients with no prior heart disease.

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