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Heart-Scan is a new technique for rapid non-invasive scanning of the heart to detect heart disease in its earliest stages
Heart-Scan is a reliable predictor of future heart disease
Heart-Scan can monitor the extent and progression of existing disease
Heart-Scan detects heart disease which is often asymptomatic, allowing for early treatment. Treatment at its earliest stages could possibly reverse, or even stop the progress of the disease.
The scan takes 5 minutes, and includes a comprehensive consultation with a member of our medical team
No prior fasting or injection is required

Why Heart-Scan?

With Heart-Scan, we can now detect and accurately quantify even the smallest amounts of calcium in the heart arteries
We can confidently diagnose heart disease whenever we find calcium in the heart arteries
If calcium is detected at the earliest possible time, this could be years before the first symptoms of heart disease present themselves
Previously the only method to detect calcium in the heart was angiography
Heart-Scan uses a specially modified, state of the art CT scanner (see examples).


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Understanding the Technology prior to the Dual-Source CT Scanner - The 64-slice CT Coronary Angiogram

The following is an article written about the latest scanning technology a few years back. This will help you better understand the improvements in scan equipment.

With new 64-slice CT scanners there everywhere these days, be sure to get your heart scan with it.

The new scanners do provide really good images of the coronary arteries. But, say you have a 20% blockage in an artery by a coronary angiogram generated on one of these devices. What will you do in 1, 2, or 3 years when you want to find out if you have progressed? Should you have the CT angiogram done again?

If you did you'll be exposed to a huge dose of radiation--appropriate for a diagnostic test, but not for a screening test. The radiation exposure is similar to undergoing a full conventional cardiac catheterization, or up to 100 chest x-rays.

"20% blockage" is also just an estimate of the diameter reduction at one spot. That number reveals nothing about the lengthwise extent of plaque or about the potential for "remodeling", that is the phenomenon of artery enlargement that takes place as plaque grows. So if you had another CT coronary angiogram a year later and was told that your blockage was still 20%, actually you could have had considerable plaque growth but it would not be shown in that value.

People will come to me after getting a CT angiogram for a suggestion. I have to send them back to their scan center to get a simple coronary calcium score. That measure is easy, quantitative, precise, and can be repeated annually to note the progression. Some physicians ridicule the heart scan, or calcium, score--it's old, boring, only a measure of hard plaque. But that is not true at all. The coronary calcium score is a measure of total plaque (hard and soft). And when you know how to control and reduce your score, then it's the most exciting number in your entire health program!

So if you go to a scan center and they direct you to a 64-slice CT scanner, or if your doctor orders one, you should insist on getting a calcium score out of the test. Centers that refuse to generate a score certainly have one thing on their mind: identifying people with severe blockages sufficient to obtain the downstream financial bonanza--angioplasty, stents, and bypass surgery.

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UK, London	Heart Scans For The Detection Of Calcium	Heart scan UK represents an important advance in the noninvasive detection coronary artery disease. Heart Scan UK is specialized CT scanning that measure calcium in the coronary arteries. Commercially available heart scans UK quantitate the amount of calcium in the wall of an artery.	Click Here
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UK	About EBA Heart Scans	EBA heart scan UK is used to obtain information about the coronary arteries supplying blood to the heart muscle. In both EBA heart scan UK and conventional angiogram contrast dye is injected into the blood circulation and images taken of the coronary arteries as the dye passes through them. EBA heart scan is significantly less invasive. EBA heart scan is performed by injecting intravenous contrast into an arm vein.	Click Here
UK, London	Heart Scans / CT Heart Scan	Heart scan UK is generally recommended for men between the ages of 40 and 70. A heart scan detects and “scores" the amount of calcium present in your arteries. A heart scan UK specifically measures the presence of calcium within plaque deposits in vessels of the heart. CT heart scan UK that measure calcium in the coronary arteries.	Click Here
London	Heart Scan UK...Should You Get One? - Heart Disease and other	So-called "heart scan UK" are specialized CT scans that measure calcium in the coronary arteries. Atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries) is a process that develops over many years and represents the deposit of plaques in the walls of the arteries. These plaques may obstruct blood flow, and, as their size increases, they may obstruct blood flow enough to cause angina pectoris (chest pain) or myocardial infarction (heart attack). These plaques consist of cholesterol, calcium, muscle cells, and connective tissue. There is a fairly good correlation between the amount of calcium in an artery and the degree of plaque in the same artery.	Click Here
UK, London	Heart Scan - EBT or CT Heart Scan, Non-Invasive Heart Disease	The heart scan UK is a simple non-invasive test used for early detection of heart disease. With early detection and modifying your risk factors, the potential for advanced heart disease may be significantly reduced and in some cases reversed. The heart scan is a painless test that takes about 10 minutes. The process is similar to taking an x-ray of your body. An individual lies on the scanner table and multiple images of the heart are taken. A qualified physician then interprets these images to determine the amount of calcified plaque in the arteries. The heart scan may be appropriate for Men 35 or older and women 40 or older with any one of the following risk factors so do heart scan UK.	Click Here
London	Heart Scan May Predict Hidden Heart Disease	There are many individuals in the United States that have heart disease. Additionally, there are many more who have heart disease, but remain asymptomatic. Heart scan UK may be able to detect the beginning of atherosclerosis, which is the buildup of cholesterol on blood vessels to form a waxy plaque. A recent research study performed on 100 women at St. Luke's Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri using the heart scan UK revealed that 42 of the women had undiagnosed heart disease. The heart scan UK specifically measures the presence of calcium within plaque deposits in vessels of the heart. The American Heart Association feels that this is a promising development in the efficient diagnosis of heart disease.	Click Here
London, UK	Heart Scan/Coronary Calcium Scoring	Coronary Calcium Scoring is a test that will tell you your risk of developing coronary artery disease. Coronary Calcium Scoring is a better predictor of coronary events than cholesterol screening or other non-invasive tests. Do heart scan UK regularly.	Click Here
UK	Heart test	In recent years, there have been improvements in heart test. Many centers now use a single photon emission computed tomographic (SPECT) camera, which provides a clearer image. Some centers also use a type of radioactive chemical called sestamibi. Sestamibi is used along with a radioactive compound called technetium. While thallium may still be better for some uses, such as providing a better image of the heart muscle itself, sestamibi may produce clearer images in overweight patients and is more useful in assessing how well the heart pumps blood by heart test.
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