Valor pronóstico del puntaje de Calcio coronario determinado por Tomografía Multicorte

The aim of this work is to study the prognostic value of coronary calcium score in a group of 50 patients, among them symptomatic and asymptomatic cardiovascular risk factors and their relationship with other known variables predictive, through a prospective, longitudinal, observational cohort, to describe the behavior of Calcium Score according to the presence or absence of cardiovascular symptoms and according to the occurrence or not of cardiac events during follow-up. For this we used a spiral scan protocol using retrospective gating by electrocardiogram and rotation time 0.33 seconds for quantification studies coronary calcium. Results were observed coronary calcium and behavior according to Framingham, showing statistically significant association between these two variables.