[Detection and significance of coronary calcinosis].
Coronary calcifications (CC) are the witness of atheromatous disease because they lies in intima. This is a best stamp of coronary atheromatosis than all the well know risk factors. CC scores is perfectly estimated by EBT. The reproductibility expressed in logarithm data is 7.2% in inter-examination, 1.3% in inter-observers, 2% in intra-observers [4]. CC detection is more specific in young population than in old population because CC appear and increase with age in asymptomatic patients [12]. But the score curve raised higher in symptomatic than in asymptomatic subjects. A patient with an abnormal score for his age will have 5 to 10% of ischemic cardiac disease during the following 6 months [11].
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Service de Radiologie Centrale, Hôpital Broussais, Paris.
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D000328:Adult; D002114:Calcinosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000517:prevention & control; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000517:prevention & control; D006801:Humans; D006937:Hypercholesterolemia / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods
Dépistage et signification des calcifications coronaires.