Coronary Calcium Scoring

Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Volume 54, Issue 20, Pages 18721882, 10 November 2009, Authors:Su Min Chang; Faisal Nabi; Jiaqiong Xu; Leif E. Peterson; Arup Achari; Craig M. Pratt; John J. Mahmarian.

4584 years) enrolled in the MESA (MultiEthnic Study of Atherosclerosis) underwent noncontrastenhanced cardiac computed tomography during enrollment to determine baseline coronary artery calcium (CAC) scores. ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) New research suggests that coronary artery calcium score (CACS) and singlephoton emission computed tomography (SPECT) provide complimentary information in predicting a persons short and longterm risk of ...

Both doctors rarely see heart attacks in their practices and other leading heart docs like Dr. Arthur Agatston (the doc of South Beach Diet fame and inventor of the goldstandard Agatston coronary calcium scoring system) made this ...

A total of 471 consecutive patients with new stable chest complaints were scheduled to undergo dualsource multislice computed tomography (Siemens, Germany; coronary calcium score CCS and coronary CTA) and exercise electrocardiography ...

Source. Chang SM, Nabi F, Jiaqiong X, et al. The coronary artery calcium score and stress myocardial perfusion imaging provide independent and complementary prediction of cardiac risk. J Am Coll Cardiol 2009; 54:18721882. Related links ...