Prognostic Value of Coronary Artery Calcification Identified by the Semi-quantitative Weston Method in the Emergency Room or Other Hospitalized Patients

Prognostic Value of Coronary Artery Calcification Identified by the Semi-quantitative Weston Method in the Emergency Room or Other Hospitalized Patients

Background: Coronary artery calcification (CAC) may provide insight to the patients' coronary artery disease (CAD) risks and influence early intervention. With increasing use of non-gated CT scans in clinical practice, the visual coronary artery scoring system (Weston Method) could quickly prov...

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Main Authors: Lu Chen, Andrey Vavrenyuk, Jun Hong Ren, Pankil Desai, Joseph Bahgat, Michael A. Bernstein, Michael I. Ebright, Mamatha Gowda, Suzanne Rose, Arzhang Fallahi, Brian Stainken, David H. Hsi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-06-01
Series:Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
Subjects:
coronary artery calcification
non-gated chest CT
Weston method for CAC
adverse cardiac events
all-cause mortality
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcvm.2021.684292/full

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