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     CORONARY ARTERY CALCIFICATION SCORING

     Our 64CT scanner can obtain precise detailed images of the heart that demonstrate the amount of calcium present in the arteries serving the heart – a reliable measure of underlying heart disease. This simple, fast and non-invasive test helps patients and their physicians evaluate a person’s level of cardiac risk.


     Disease in the arteries carrying blood to the heart from the lungs (the coronary arteries) is caused by a build up of degenerative material in the vessel walls, a condition known as atherosclerosis. This atherosclerotic hardening of the arteries starts as the deposition of fatty plaques in the artery wall. As part of the body’s healing reaction to this process, calcium is deposited in the fatty plaques of the vessel wall. This calcium laden plaque in the heart’s arterial vessels can be measured by sophisticated CT scanners and can be correlated with the extent of underlying total atherosclerotic disease. This total CT calcification score is a good indication of the amount of calcified hardening of the heart’s arteries (the coronary arteries), as well as the amount of underlying early non-calcified fatty plaque in the heart’s (coronary) arteries.

     The total CT calcification score will be calculated for you with a reference to the range of normal scores for your age range. Your report will also give individual scores for the major heart (coronary) arteries. The report will classify you into a disease category with some basic suggestions about how to continue appropriate medical follow-up. While we do not require a written order from a physician, we will require that you provide us with the name of a primary physician to whom we can send this information in a secure manner.

     Wyoming Radiology and MRI and Wyoming Imaging Consultants are proud to bring this sophisticated Toshiba 64CT scanner to Sheridan. This 64CT scanner employs the most advanced multi-slice technology and has the fastest rotational speed of any available 64CT scanner – thus optimizing fine detail evaluation of the heart and coronary arteries.


     Patients find 64CT coronary artery calcification score convenient and fast

Patients can remain in street cloths
No preparation to drink and no IV needed
No injections or blood draws are required.
The entire examination takes less than 5 minutes.
You and your physician will have results within 24 hours.
No physician order is necessary
Appointments and walk-in patients are welcome.


Who should have this test?

     Patients who are concerned about their cardiac risk can refer themselves to Wyoming Radiology and MRI or call our office for further information. Physicians may also refer patients.

     Those for whom the benefit is most pronounced are men aged 35 to 65 and women age 40 to 70. Young adults will have less benefit from this test unless there is a history of diabetes or a strong family history of heart disease.

     People with a history of prior heart attack, heart surgery, or coronary stint placement are not good candidates for this procedure. These patients are better managed by more invasive stress testing vs. CT angiography or conventional coronary angiography.

     Patients may call Wyoming Radiology and MRI at 307-673-XRAY (9729) to make and appointment for Coronary Artery Calcification Scoring. Walk-in patients are also welcome.