| "I believe that this is the ideal cardiac screening test. It's safe, fast (10 - 15 minutes), painless (similar to having a chest x-ray), affordable, and able to detect the heart disease process years before a treadmill test or before you might ever feel a symptom."
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| "We have to look directly at the disease itself, at the coronary arteries, noninvasively, in a quick and inexpensive way. We have to image the coronaries and see the people who are developing atherosclerosis and treat them aggressively. There is enough evidence now to recommend mass screening. Coronary Artery Screening is 98% accurate for excluding significant obstructive disease. I call it the Mammogram of the heart."
Arthur S. Agatston, M.D. |
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| "Coronary Artery Screening provides a window of opportunity to reverse or prevent progression of the atherosclerotic process."
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| "Coronary calcium detected by electron beam tomography is currently the most powerful tool available for noninvasive assessment of coronary artery atherosclerosis in asymptomatic individuals. It allows conscious decisions to be made to improve cardiovascular risk in view of the objective coronary pathology. It can improve a person's odds in the cardiac lottery of life before the sudden heart attack or death. It documents the cumulative effect of all coronary risk factors, conventional and those not yet known."
Eva V. Chomka, M.D. |
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"Our data indicate that the electron beam CT-derived coronary artery calcium score predicts fatal and nonfatal heart attacks, as well as the need for coronary bypass surgery and coronary (balloon) angioplasty, with unprecedented accuracy." Alan D. Guerci, M.D. |
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"The probability of having coronary artery disease can be accurately predicted with measurement at electron beam CT of coronary calcific deposits." Susanne L. Mautner, M.D., et al., |
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"EBCT represents the only currently available noninvasive method for the identification of subclinical coronary atherosclerosis, which has been clearly demonstrated to be a strong predictor of cardiac mortality and morbidity. Early identification of coronary plaques using EBCT in high risk subjects could allow identification of patients in whom aggressive risk factor modification should be undertaken and might result in a significant reduction of future cardiac events." Dietrich Baumgart, M.D., et al., |
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"The absence of calcium virtually excludes coronary artery disease." Bruce Brundage, M.D. |
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"Ultrafast CT Scanning is a noninvasive, non-exercise-dependent test with an excellent sensitivity for the detection of coronary artery disease." Matthew J. Budoff, M.D., |
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"Data suggest that EBCT is a highly sensitive and specific test for coronary atherosclerosis and provide a basis for clinical applications when EBCT is viewed as a noninvasive method to estimate human coronary atherosclerotic involvement and 'plaque burden'". John A. Rumberger, Ph.D., M.D. and |
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"Ultrafast CT scanning with an electron beam proved many times more powerful than the best available non-invasive test in predicting heart attacks and other coronary disease episodes even in apparently healthy people, a new study shows." American Heart Association |
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