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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Nelson AJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6826912 | biostudies-literature | 2019
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Therapeutic advances in chronic disease 20191101
Despite its commonality in routine clinical practice, the approach to a diagnosis of atherosclerotic coronary artery disease remains complex and, in part, contentious. The traditional dogma linking ischaemia to hard clinical outcomes has been questioned and reframed over the years; rather than being a predictor of hard clinical outcomes, the degree of ischaemia may simply be a marker of atherosclerotic disease burden. A renewed interest in the imaging of plaque burden has spawned the contemporar ...[more]