Is coronary calcium scoring too late? Total body arterial calcium burden in patients without known CAD and normal MPI

Adel H. Allam,Randall C. Thompson,Michael Eskander,Mohamed A. Mandour Ali,Ayman Sadek,Chris J. Rowan,M. Linda Sutherland,James Sutherland,Bruno Frohlich,David E. Michalik,Caleb E. Finch,Jagat Narula,Gregory S. Thomas,L. Samuel Wann

Is coronary calcium scoring too late? Total body arterial calcium burden in patients without known CAD and normal MPI

2018

Adel H. Allam
Randall C. Thompson
Michael Eskander
Mohamed A. Mandour Ali
Ayman Sadek
Chris J. Rowan
M. Linda Sutherland
James Sutherland
Bruno Frohlich
David E. Michalik
Caleb E. Finch
Jagat Narula
Gregory S. Thomas
L. Samuel Wann

Background Patients with normal myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) have a good prognosis. However, pre-clinical coronary and extracoronary atherosclerosis may exist in the absence of myocardial ischemia.

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Cardiology
Radiology
Internal medicine
Abdominal aorta
Ischemia
Calcium
Coronary artery disease
Myocardial perfusion imaging
Medicine
Diabetes mellitus
in patient
total body
CAD

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