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To: neverdem
Screening patients for subclinical atherosclerosis with non-contrast cardiac CT.

With all due respect, calicum scoring is old technology. If the patient can handle the contrast load you might as well do a coronary CTA on a 64 slice CT scanner at an imaging center that knows what they're doing.

Soft plaque is the killer and not detectable on a noncontrast cardiac ct. I've seen plenty of guys under 50 with zero calcium scores and lots of soft plaque including widow maker lesions in the proximal LAD.

76 posted on 06/17/2008 11:11:00 PM PDT by Maynerd (McCain is a pompous ass, Obama is a left wing pompous ass.)
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To: Maynerd
With all due respect, calicum scoring is old technology.

With all due respect, I was asked what I thought about it in comment# 50. The abstract for the link I provided didn't strike me as a glowing endorsement for screening from a recent paper.

83 posted on 06/18/2008 12:01:18 AM PDT by neverdem (I'm praying for a Divine Intervention.)
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