Anatomic First or Invasive Angiography First? DISCHARGE Shows No QOL Advantage for CT over ICA in Stable Chest Pain
Highlights
– In the DISCHARGE prespecified secondary analysis, an initial CT-first strategy yielded no clinically meaningful advantage over an ICA-first strategy in patient-reported quality of life (QOL) or angina at a median 3.5 years of follow-up.
– Both groups experienced small but statistically significant improvements in several QOL domains; clinically important differences were generally absent.
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