[Detection and significance of coronary calcinosis]

J Radiol. 1994 Dec;75(12):693-9.
[Article in French]

Abstract

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].

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Calcinosis / diagnostic imaging*
  • Calcinosis / prevention & control
  • Coronary Disease / diagnostic imaging*
  • Coronary Disease / prevention & control
  • Humans
  • Hypercholesterolemia / complications
  • Hypercholesterolemia / diagnostic imaging
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Reproducibility of Results
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed* / methods