Influence of Changes in Pretest-probability for Chronic Coronary Syndromes on Diagnostic Performance of Dobutamine Stress Echocardiography

摘要

Guidelines for chronic coronary syndromes recommend the assessment of pre-test probability (PTP) of coronary artery disease (CAD) in patients presenting with stable chest pain.1),2),3) Previous guidelines recommended the use of the original or updated version of the Diamond and Forrester model, which is a simple predictive model based on age, sex, and the nature of symptoms, to estimate the PTP.1),2),4) However, the models used in previous guidelines tend to overestimate the PTP of CAD.5),6)