Cholesterol

So, we would need him to work on his But, let’s say the calcium score is high, then we would proceed to perhaps stress testing, a perfusion scan and angiography, should stress testing suggest a large territory at jeopardy.” High radiation in CT angiography is another problem the Consumer Reports article mentions, and it has been documented in more than one study.

However, dropping the patient’s heart rate below 70 beats per minute, and ‘ECG modulation,’ which is the timing of the machine to turn on and off at only two segments of the cardiac cycle, can significantly reduce radiation, according to Fail.The future of this technology is only a few years away, with testing already going on for up to 256-slice and ‘dual source energy’ equipment.

“Right now, there’s no efficient technology to say if the plaque we see is vulnerable plaque, the kind that can actually rupture and cause a problem.

We can be suspicious, but no study out there now can do that yet,” he added.And CT angiography is not just for cardiac procedures, as it will visualize renal and peripheral vasculature among other studies.

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