ReviewEuropean radiology2018
Leveraging the coronary calcium scan beyond the coronary calcium score.
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17 citing papers in PubMed, 29 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Trabecular bone density in middle-aged women with reproductive disorders.Endocrine connections · 2023Article
- Non-Contrast and Contrast-Enhanced Cardiac Computed Tomography Imaging in the Diagnostic and Prognostic Evaluation of Coronary Artery Disease.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Serum Homocysteine and Vascular Calcification: Advances in Mechanisms, Related Diseases, and Nutrition.Korean journal of family medicine · 2022Article
- Coronary artery calcium score scan at 100 kVp with tin filtration (Sn100 kVp) prior to coronary computed tomography angiography for overall radiation dose reduction: a prospective cohort study.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2022Article
- Recent technologies in cardiac imaging.Frontiers in medical technology · 2022Review
- Subclinical cardiovascular disease and utility of coronary artery calcium score.International journal of cardiology. Heart & vasculature · 2021Review
- Calcium Identification and Scoring Based on Echocardiography. An Exploratory Study on Aortic Valve Stenosis.Journal of personalized medicine · 2021Article
- The Radiologist as a Gatekeeper in Chest Pain.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Review
- Ten things to know about ten imaging studies: A preventive cardiology perspective ("ASPC top ten imaging").American journal of preventive cardiology · 2021Review
- Objectives, design and main findings until 2020 from the Rotterdam Study.European journal of epidemiology · 2020Article
- Hepatic fat is superior to BMI, visceral and pancreatic fat as a potential risk biomarker for neurodegenerative disease.European radiology · 2019Article
- Assessment of hepatic steatosis by using attenuation imaging: a quantitative, easy-to-perform ultrasound technique.European radiology · 2019Article
- CT indices for the diagnosis of hepatic steatosis using non-enhanced CT images: development and validation of diagnostic cut-off values in a large cohort with pathological reference standard.European radiology · 2019Article
- Epicardial fat volume measured on nongated chest CT is a predictor of coronary artery disease.European radiology · 2019Article
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Abstract
Non-contrast cardiac computed tomography in order to obtain the coronary artery calcium score has become an established diagnostic procedure in the clinical setting, and is commonly employed in clinical and population-based research. This state-of-the-art review paper highlights the potential gain in information that can be obtained from the non-contrast coronary calcium scans without any necessary modifications to the scan protocol. This includes markers of cardio-metabolic health, such as the amount of epicardial fat and liver fat, but also markers of general health including bone density and lung density. Finally, this paper addresses the importance of incidental findings and of radiation exposure accompanying imaging with non-contrast cardiac computed tomography. Despite the fact that coronary calcium scan protocols have been optimized for the visualization of coronary calcification in terms image quality and radiation exposure, it is important for radiologists, cardiologists and medical specialists in the field of preventive medicine to acknowledge that numerous additional markers of cardio-metabolic health and general health can be readily identified on a coronary calcium scan. KEY POINTS: • The coronary artery calcium score substantially increased the use of cardiac CT. • Cardio-metabolic and general health markers may be derived without changes to the scan protocol. • Those include epicardial fat, aortic valve calcifications, liver fat, bone density, and lung density. • Clinicians must be aware of this potential additional yield from non-contrast cardiac CT.
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