Coronary Artery Calcium Scoring: Program Overview - View Full PDF
Rationale:
Noninvasive atherosclerosis imaging provides more accurate and earlier detection of coronary heart disease than Framingham risk scoring or empiric clinical judgment.
Procedure:
Cardiac CT for coronary artery calcium scoring (CACS). No intravenous lines. No contrast agents.
Duration: five to 10 minutes. UH offers this procedure at no cost.
Availability:
- UH Cleveland Medical Center (Cleveland)
- UH Ahuja Medical Center (Beachwood)
- UH Bedford Medical Center, a campus of UH Regional Hospitals
- UH Conneaut Medical Center
- UH Geauga Medical Center
- UH Geneva Medical Center
- UH Parma Medical Center
- UH Portage Medical Center
- UH St. John Medical Center (Westlake)
- UH Amherst Health Center (coming soon)
- UH Avon Health Center
- UH Chagrin Highlands Health Center (Orange Village)
- UH Concord Health Center
- UH Fairlawn Health Center
- UH Medina Health Center
- UH Mentor Health Center
- UH Twinsburg Health Center
- UH Westlake Health Center
Candidates:
Men ages 45 or older and women ages 55 or older with one or more of the following risk factors: cigarette smoking, arterial hypertension or taking antihypertensive drug therapy, HDL-C
Exclusions:
Heart rate >100/minute; weight >400 pounds; established CHD; history of ?50 percent carotid stenosis, nonembolic TIA or CVA; peripheral vascular occlusive disease; or abdominal aortic aneurysm.
To schedule, 216-844-1700 (Radiology Patient Access). Physician order is required.
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