Coronary artery calcium screening: current status and recommendations from the European Society of Cardiac Radiology and North American Society for Cardiovascular Imaging

Current guidelines and literature on screening for coronary artery calcium for cardiac risk assessment are reviewed for both general and special populations. It is shown that for both general and special populations a zero score excludes most clinically relevant coronary artery disease. The importan...

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Published in:European radiology 2008-12, Vol.18 (12), p.2785-2807
Main Authors: Oudkerk, Matthijs, Stillman, Arthur E., Halliburton, Sandra S., Kalender, Willi A., Möhlenkamp, Stefan, McCollough, Cynthia H., Vliegenthart, Rozemarijn, Shaw, Leslee J., Stanford, William, Taylor, Allen J., van Ooijen, Peter M. A., Wexler, Lewis, Raggi, Paolo
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Asymptomatic
Atherosclerosis
Calcinosis - diagnostic imaging
Cardiac
Cardiology
Cardiology - standards
Cardiology - trends
Cardiovascular disease
Coronary Angiography - standards
Coronary Angiography - trends
Coronary Artery Disease - diagnostic imaging
Coronary vessels
Diagnostic Radiology
Europe
Heart attacks
Humans
Imaging
Internal Medicine
Interventional Radiology
Mass Screening - standards
Mass Screening - trends
Medical imaging
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Neuroradiology
North America
Practice Guidelines as Topic
Radiology
Radiology - standards
Radiology - trends
Risk assessment
Ultrasound
Vein & artery diseases
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Summary:Current guidelines and literature on screening for coronary artery calcium for cardiac risk assessment are reviewed for both general and special populations. It is shown that for both general and special populations a zero score excludes most clinically relevant coronary artery disease. The importance of standardization of coronary artery calcium measurements by multidetector CT is discussed.
ISSN:0938-7994
1432-1084
DOI:10.1007/s00330-008-1095-6