Coronary artery calcium screening: Current status and recommendations from the European Society of Cardiac Radiology and North American Society for Cardiovascular Imaging

European Radiology

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2785-2807

  Oudkerk, Matthijs ^a   Stillman, Arthur E ^b,c   Halliburton, Sandra S ^d   Kalender, Willi A ^e   Möhlenkamp, Stefan ^f   McCollough, Cynthia H ^g   Vliegenthart, Rozemarijn ^a   Shaw, Leslee J ^b,c   Stanford, William ^h   Taylor, Allen J ⁱ   Ooijen, Peter M A ^a   Wexler, Lewis ^j   Raggi, Paolo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^g MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

ⁱ WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^j STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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Author keywords

Coronary artery atherosclerosis; Coronary artery calcium; Coronary artery CT; Coronary risk assessment

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CALCIUM BLOOD LEVEL; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIABETES MELLITUS; ELDERLY CARE; ELECTRON BEAM TOMOGRAPHY; GENETIC SCREENING; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; STANDARDIZATION; STRATIFICATION; THORAX PAIN;

CALCINOSIS; CARDIOLOGY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; EUROPE; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; NORTH AMERICA; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RADIOLOGY;

EID: 56449103623     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-008-1095-6     Document Type: Article

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