PURPOSE: Coronary artery calcium (CAC) scores influence the pre-test likelihood of ischemia in patients undergoing myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI). We investigated the influence of CAC score knowledge on the visual interpretation of MPI in patients referred for the diagnostic work-up of suspected ...
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Interpretation of the coronary artery calcium score in combination with conventional cardiovascular risk factors: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis... Background;The coronary artery calcium (CAC) score predicts coronary heart disease (CHD) events, but methods for interpreting the score in combina...
Knez et al. [12] studied 99 symptomatic men (mean age: 60 years) with both MDCT (prospective triggering, Siemens Volume Zoom) and EBT imaging and found a correlation coefficient of 0.99 for CVS and 0.98 for the mass score (MS) with a mean overall variability of 17%. No significant diff...
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Second, the repeatability of biomarkers is crucial for their identification and biological interpretation in metabonomics studies. Thus, to verify the repeatability of biomarkers, the same urinary metabolic profiling and time-course analysis of discriminating variables were applied in a repeated low-calcium...
(Fig. 8-8). These findings suggest a potential role of CACS as an adjunct to SPECT for the noninvasive evaluation of CAD. It seems reasonable to elaborate algorithms where the combination of CACS with myocardial perfusion studies may help refine the interpretation of the latter. On the one ...
3.1. Clinical Interpretation and Application of EBCT Calcium Scores. A negative EBCT scan (i.e., no detectable mural calcification) does not establish that coronary plaque is absent ([18]), nor can it exclude the presence of a lipid-rich but unstable plaque. In fact, the area of calcium ...
34 Even at old age, 31% of our study population had a CAC score of 0; however, the results require careful interpretation because the proportion differed by race/ethnicity (23% in white individuals vs 35%-40% in other races/ethnicities). Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease risk was low in...
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