TY  - JOUR
T1  - EValuating patients with persistent chest pain and no obstructive coronary artery disease—reply
AU  - Phan A, Shufelt C, Bairey Merz C
Y1  - 2009/08/12
N1  - 10.1001/jama.2009.1097
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 622
EP  - 624
VL  - 302
IS  - 6
N2  - 
In Reply: In response to Dr Seiden, the timing of translation of new research findings into clinical practice is always an issue of debate. When a body of evidence is ready for general use in clinical care will vary according to who is asked. Current evidence that supports coronary reactivity testing used in the patients in our article includes prognosis data documenting a 16% 5-year major adverse cardiac event rate in patients with signs and symptoms of ischemia with no obstructive CAD,1 suggesting that reassurance in this population is no longer appropriate. In addition, contemporary safety data have demonstrated that the risk of modern flow reserve testing in the hands of trained interventional cardiologists is lower than the risk of the condition, as reviewed in our article, and therefore can be considered in appropriate cases.

SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.2009.1097
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2009.1097
ER  -