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  1. Coronary Calcium Scan From the National Institutes of Health (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)
    What Is a Coronary Calcium Scan? A coronary calcium scan is a test that can help show whether you have coronary heart disease (CHD), also ... that show whether the coronary arteries have calcifications. Coronary Calcium Scan Figure A shows the position of the heart ...
    www.nhlbi.nih.gov/.../dci/Diseases/cscan/cscan_whatis.html - External Health Links
  2. Heart CT scan
    ... heart; Computed axial tomography scan - heart; Computed tomography scan - heart; Calcium scoring; Multi-detector CT scan - heart; Electron beam computed tomography - heart
    www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/007344.htm - Medical Encyclopedia
  3. Coronary Artery Disease (National Library of Medicine)
    Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the most common type of heart disease. It is the leading cause of death in the United States in both men and women. CAD happens ...
    www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/coronaryarterydisease.html - Health Topics
  4. Heart Attack (National Library of Medicine)
    Each year over a million people in the U.S. have a heart attack. About half of them die. Many people have permanent heart damage or die because they don't ...
    www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/heartattack.html - Health Topics
  5. CT Scans (National Library of Medicine)
    Computed tomography (CT) is a diagnostic procedure that uses special X-ray equipment to create cross-sectional pictures of your body. CT images are produced using ...
    www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ctscans.html - Health Topics
  6. Heart and Vascular Diseases From the National Institutes of Health (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)
    ... Artery Bypass Grafting HTML Coronary Artery Disease HTML Coronary Calcium Scan HTML Heart Attack HTML Stents HTML Virtual Heart ... Artery Bypass Grafting HTML Coronary Artery Disease HTML Coronary Calcium Scan HTML Coronary Microvascular Disease HTML Don't Burn ...
    www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/public/heart - External Health Links
  7. Cardiac CT From the National Institutes of Health (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)
    ... This type of CT scan is called a coronary calcium scan . Calcium in the coronary arteries may be an early sign of coronary ... pictures of the pericardium. Different types of CT scans may be used ... be used to detect calcium in the coronary arteries. Another type of CT ...
    www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/dci/Diseases/ct/ct_whatis.html - External Health Links
  8. Simple Test Might Detect 'Silent' Heart Disease
    ... of the American College of Cardiology . The tests -- coronary artery calcium scans -- pinpoint clogs in coronary arteries caused by plaque. While they can warn ...
    www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_90143.html - News
  9. Aortic Calcification: Does It Increase My Heart Disease Risk? (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)
    ... caused by aortic valve stenosis. Another test, the coronary calcium scan, can measure the amount of calcification in your heart, but isn't widely recommended. Aortic valve sclerosis ...
    www.mayoclinic.com/.../HQ00245/METHOD=print - External Health Links
  10. Computer Imaging / Tomography (American Heart Association)
    ... to the amount of underlying coronary atherosclerosis. The coronary calcium score, derived from EBCT scans of the coronary arteries, is known to predict ...
    www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=4554 - External Health Links
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