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 importance of standardization of coronary artery calcium measurements by multidetector CT is discussed.
Oudkerk
Matthijs
M
Department of Radiology, Groningen University Hospital, Hanzeplein 1, 9700 RB, Groningen, The Netherlands.
Stillman
Arthur E
AE
Halliburton
Sandra S
SS
Kalender
Willi A
WA
Möhlenkamp
Stefan
S
McCollough
Cynthia H
CH
Vliegenthart
Rozemarijn
R
Shaw
Leslee J
LJ
Stanford
William
W
Taylor
Allen J
AJ
van Ooijen
Peter M A
PM
Wexler
Lewis
L
Raggi
Paolo
P
D002114:Calcinosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D002309:Cardiology / Q000592:standards* / Q000639:trends; D017023:Coronary Angiography / Q000592:standards* / Q000639:trends; D003324:Coronary Artery Disease / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D005060:Europe; D006801:Humans; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000592:standards* / Q000639:trends; D009656:North America; D011871:Radiology / Q000592:standards* / Q000639:trends