@article{1448964,
      recid = {1448964},
      author = {Nudi, Francesco, and Schillaci, Orazio, and Biondi-Zoccai,  Giuseppe, and Iskandrian, Ami E.,},
      title = {Hybrid cardiac imaging for clinical decision-making : from  diagnosis to prognosis /},
      pages = {1 online resource (1 volume) :},
      abstract = {Performing any diagnostic test in medicine is always a  matter of trying to get the condition of the patient  diagnosed properly with the least effort, exposure,  discomfort and at the same time with the lowest possible  error probability. Pre-test probability is helpful but  often imprecise, effectively overestimating the patient's  risk profile. In a broader prevention objective, the phases  of a disease, its onset, progression, and complications  must be taken into account. The negative predictive value,  which is so important, has in turn its main limitation in  identifying the healthy patient, that is, the one who does  not belong to any cluster of patients in which we would act  in terms of prevention. In coronary syndromes, the goal is  instead to evaluate coronary heart disease, from mild to  more extensive and significant forms. For this purpose, it  is necessary to use parameters that investigate different  and complementary aspects: stenosis, ischemia, the  morphology of the atherosclerotic plaque, metabolic  processes, in particular vitality and apoptosis, the  presence of inflammatory processes. The possibility,  already present thanks to Hybrid Imaging, of 'joining exams  that study different aspects, will allow the patient to be  increasingly characterized not only from a diagnostic point  of view but also from a prognostic and personalized  therapeutic choice.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1448964},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99391-7},
}