A new Screening Tool for Detecting Early Atheroslerosis

In a study published in the current issue of the Journal of Geriatric Cardiology. Ang and co-investigators used the high-resolution 64-slice CT coronary angiography to detect coro-nary lesions in a group of patients with atypical angina.1 The clinical data of these patients were also used to calculate their risk according the Framingham and PROCAM scoring system. --1 As the cohort is composed with a majority of low risk pa-tients with atypical angina, only a small minority of the pa-tients were classified as having medium and high risk. The results showed that MDCT uncovered 18% either significant lesions (>50% stenosis) or calcifications (>400Agatston units) in the low risk patients and 33% in the medium and high risk subgroups.