Recommended reading
Books, papers and talks that helped me understand the questions. None of it is a substitute for a conversation with your physician.
Paper
ISCHEMIA Research Group · New England Journal of Medicine, 2020
The trial behind the idea that, in stable disease, an initial invasive strategy did not reduce major cardiovascular events compared with medical therapy. Worth reading for the actual endpoints and the population studied, rather than the headline version.
Paper
AHA/ACC and six societies · Circulation, 2021
What the specialty societies themselves say about evaluating chest pain, including where CCTA and FFR-CT sit. Dense reading, but it is the document the recommendations you hear are drawn from.
Book
Steve Kaplan · foreword by Tim A. Fischell, M.D.
The account this site grew out of: one result flagged as urgent, ten cardiologists who did not agree, and the work of understanding the decision well enough to take part in it.
Book
Steve Kaplan
Earlier book, on making a case with evidence rather than assertion. Not about cardiology, but the same habit of mind runs through both.
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