Be a Game Changer

Abstract

Aside from its inability to accurately triage patients with obstructive disease to the interventional laboratory (1), the noninvasive evaluation of coronary artery disease has been plagued from its inception by a poorly appreciated, fundamental paradox that renders its application to individual patients problematic. All the technologies used to measure the significance of an angiographic coronary stenosis have been validated by using the coronary stenosis itself as the gold standard and have then used the technology to judge