A CT Cardiac Scoring, also referred to as a Calcium Scoring, is a CT scan to evaluate the presence, location and extent of calcified plaque in the coronary arteries. Coronary arteries are the vessels that supply oxygen-containing blood to the heart. Why is the exam done? Your healthcare pr...
Cardiac-CT with the newest CT scanners: An incoming screening tool for competitive athletes?Computed tomographyCoronary anomaliesCoronary CT angiographyInnovative biotechnologiesRadiation doseCompetitive athletes of all skill levels are at risk of sudden cardiac death (SCD) due to certain heart conditions. ...
LAD = 左前降支动脉,LCX = 左回旋支动脉,RCA = 右冠状动脉,TAC = 胸主动脉钙化。 Figure 3: Illustration depicts training and evaluation of baseline, data-specific, and combined algorithms. Baseline algorithm was trained with National Lung Screening Trial (NLST) scans, and its performance was evalu...
Cardiac CTA is also a useful alternative to invasive coronary angiography for pre-operative evaluation of persons undergoing non-coronary cardiac surgery or high-risk non-cardiac surgery, where invasive coronary angiography would otherwise be indicated. Einstein and colleagues (2007) ascertained the lifet...
CAC assessment outperforms the traditional and non-traditional risk factors such as C-reactive protein (CRP) and carotid intima media thickness (IMT) in predicting cardiac events [8]. However, screening for subclinical markers such as CAC is a subject of debate [25,54]. A review by Hollands...
Cardiac CT > All SubspecialtiesLatest News Study Shows Merits of CTA-Derived Quantitative Flow Ratio in Predicting MACE By Jeff Hall December 12th 2024 For patients with suspected or known coronary artery disease (CAD) without percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), researchers found that those with...
Cardiac outcomes after screening for asymptomatic coronary artery disease in patients with type 2 diabetes: the DIAD study: a randomized controlled trial. JAMA. 2009;301(15):1547-1555.ArticlePubMedGoogle ScholarCrossref 11. Rajagopalan N, Miller TD, Hodge DO, Frye RL, Gibbons RJ. Identifying ...
Optional decision feedback provides insight in the regions that contributed to the calcium score. Experiments were performed using 903 cardiac CT and 1,687 chest CT scans. The method predicted calcium scores in less than 0.3 s. Intra-class correlation coefficient between predicted and manual calcium...
Editorial Advisory Board Member: Virtual Cardiac Centre. References Erbel R, Möhlenkamp S, Kerkhoff G, Budde T, Schmermund A. Non-invasive screening for coronary artery disease: Calcium scoring.Heart.2007; 93: 1620-9. Agatston AS, Janowitz WR, Hildner FJ, Zusmer NR, Viamonte M Jr, Det...
“screening cCTA” procedures. A similar problematic situation arises when low-risk asymptomatic patients are referred for cardiac catheterization after a positive stress test in the course of a preoperative or “routine” cardiac evaluation. Such patients may benefit from a “second opinion” cCTA, ...