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. 2009 Aug 1;25(8):847–854. doi: 10.1007/s10554-009-9485-7

Table 4.

Diagnostic performance of CTCA in patients with (a) stable angina and (b) unstable angina

Prevalence of disease (%) N TP TN FP FN Sensitivity (%) Specificity (%) PPV (%) NPV (%) LR+ LR− Diagnostic accuracy (%)
(a) Stable angina 63 233 145 56 31 1 99 (96–100) 64 (53–74) 83 (76–88) 98 (89–100) 2.8 (2.1–3.7) 0.01 (0.00–0.08) 86 (82–91)
A: CS <10 16 43 7 32 4 0 100 (56–100) 89 (73–96) 64 (32–88) 100 (87–100) 9.0 (3.6–22.7) 0.00 (0.00–n/an) 91 (82–99)
B: CS 10 to <100 54 35 19 9 7 0 100 (79–100) 56 (31–79) 73 (52–88) 100 (63–100) 2.3 (1.3–4.0) 0.00 (0.00–n/an) 80 (67–93)
C: CS 100 to <400 70 76 52 13 10 1 98 (89–100) 57 (35–76) 84 (72–92) 93 (64–100) 2.3 (1.4–3.6) 0.03 (0.00–0.25) 86 (78–93)
D: CS ≥400 84 77 65 2 10 0 100 (93–100) 17 (3–49) 86 (76–93) 100 (20–100) 1.2 (0.9–1.5( 0.00 (0.00–n/an) 97 (80–95)
A vs. D NS p = 0.023 NS NS p < 0.0001 n/an NS
(b) Unstable angina 79 127 99 17 10 1 99 (94–100) 63 (42–80) 91 (83–95) 94 (71–100) 2.7 (1.6–4.4) 0.02 (0.00–0.12) 91 (86–96)
A: CS <10 42 19 8 10 1 0 100 (60–100) 91 (57–100) 89 (51–100) 100 (66–100) 11.0 (1.7–71.3) 0.00 (0.00–n/an) 95 (85–100)
B: CS 10 to <100 79 28 22 4 2 0 100 (82–100) 67 (24–94) 92 (72–99) 100 (40–100) 3.0 (1.0–9.3) 0.00 (0.00–n/an) 93 (83–100)
C: CS 100 to <400 83 42 34 2 5 1 97 (93–100) 29 (5–70) 87 (72–95) 67 (13–98) 1.4 (0.9–2.2) 0.10 (0.01–1.39) 86 (75–96)
D: CS ≥400 92 37 34 1 2 0 100 (87–100) 33 (2–87) 94 (80–99) 100 (5–100) 1.5 (0.7–3.3) 0.00 (0.00–n/an) 95 (87–100)
A vs. D NS NS NS NS p < 0.0001 n/an NS

Diagnostic performance of CTCA in all patients with (a) stable angina and (b) unstable angina combined, and in subgroups per Agatston CS. Specificity and positive likelihood ratio decreased with increasing CS (p-value for the comparison by Chi-squared test across groups A and D)

Abbreviations as for Table 3