One of India's top neurologists, Dr Sudhir Kumar, revealed the case of a 40-year-old IT professional who, despite leading a ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I am now 78 years old. My mother’s two brothers died of heart attacks at 55 and 65, so when I was in my 50s, I had a calcium scan of my heart. Since then, I have been taking 10 ...

A-D show CT angiography image a 43 -year-old gentleman, who came in for a general check-up but calcium score was found to be 127.3 (E) and diagnosed with chronic total occlusion (100% stenosis) of ...

For example, one of my patients had a calcium score of zero, yet he had a 70% disease that needed to be stented. So, if I had ordered a plain calcium score, I would have never known it.

However, the amount of radiation from the most modern dedicated coronary calcium CT scanners — called an electron-beam CT — is very small: 0.6 mSv. This is only a little more than a mammogram.

Cite this: A 43-Year-Old With a Calcium Score of 347: And the Audience Said . . . - Medscape - Sep 03, 2014.

International medical organisations have concluded that 80% of heart attack deaths in young people can be prevented through calcium score and CT coronary angiogram tests, which can predict the ...