Does coronary CT angiography improve risk stratification over coronary calcium scoring in symptomatic patients with suspected coronary artery disease?
In symptomatic patients with suspected CAD, CCTA adds incremental discriminatory power over CAC for discrimination of individuals at risk of death or MI.
More adjuvant treatment is recommended in the elderly patients because of a higher incidence of advanced disease and aggressive histopathology. Approximately half of the elderly patients who were recommended treatment actually received it. In addition, clinical trial data are limited for elderly patients because approximately one third of the women aged 70 years and older who meet pathologic enrollment criteria for trials were excluded because of complex medical disease.