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Second heart scan and heart attack risk by Dr. William D. Medical Doctor

Posted Fri 12 Sep 2008 8:52am At first, Joe felt disappointed, defeated, and frightened. After his heart scan, a radiologist at the center told him that his score of 264 was moderately high. He told Joe that he was at moderate risk for heart attack and that a nuclear stress test was going to be required. This left Joe feeling confused. After all he'd had a heart scan 18 months Read on »

"Heart scans" are not always heart scans by Dr. William D. Medical Doctor

Posted Tue 26 Aug 2008 4:17pm advocate for screening for coronary heart disease is a CT or EBT heart scan, not a CT coronary angiogram. CTA is a useful test and will get better and better as the engineers... Beware of the media reports now being issued that warn that "CT heart scans" pose a risk for cancer. One report can be viewed at http://www.webmd.com/cancer Read on »

Heart Scan Curiosities #8: Fat heart by Dr. William D. Medical Doctor

Posted Tue 26 Aug 2008 4:17pm Here's a curious incidental finding on a heart scan: an unusual fat accumulation around the heart. The arrows point to an unusually large accumulation of fat tissue on either side of the heart. This man was mildly but not excessively overweight at 5 ft 10 inches and 201 lbs. I know of no specific implications Read on »

Heavy traffic and heart scans by Dr. William D. Medical Doctor

Posted Tue 26 Aug 2008 4:17pm A German study just reported in Circulation showed a graded response of EBT heart scan scores and proximity to traffic. Living 50 meters (around 150 feet) from... and homes, the dissolution of the American family. Lastly, notice how the conversation about CT (in this case, EBT) heart scanning has seamlessly worked its way into conversation Read on »

Blowup at Milwaukee Heart Scan by Dr. William D. Medical Doctor

Posted Wed 25 Mar 2009 3:12pm , performing EBT heart scans, as well as CT coronary angiograms as long ago as the late 1990s, virtual colonoscopies, and other imaging tests. We all spent a great deal of time educating..., the Burlingames, turned to questionable tactics to make this technology pay. Make no mistake: Heart scans remain a wonderful medical imaging modality. EBT, in particular, remains Read on »

Heart scan book by Dr. William D. Medical Doctor

Posted Sun 19 Apr 2009 11:09pm There are only two books on heart scans available. One, of course, is Track Your Plaque. The other is the basic book on heart scans, What Does My Heart Scan Show.... If you're interested, just go here. This book can provide many basic answers to the questions that often arise regarding heart scans, such as the expected rate of increase in score Read on »

What if heart scans become obsolete? by Dr. William D. Medical Doctor

Posted Mon 25 Aug 2008 3:03pm What will we do if or when CT heart scans become outdated and something better comes along? Heart scans are, after all, our principal tool for detection and precise quantification of coronary atherosclerotic plaque. They provide the basis for the Track Your Plaque program: serial heart scans to track progression or regression of coronary plaque Read on »

Third heart scan a charm by Dr. William D. Medical Doctor

Posted Tue 26 Aug 2008 4:17pm It struck me recently that, for many people, it's not the second but the third heart scan that more commonly shows a reduction in score. I think this is because many people's reaction to their first heart scan is "This can't be. There's no way my arteries have that much plaque." They then follow a half-hearted program to correct Read on »

Interview with world heart scan authority, Dr. John Rumberger by Dr. William D. Medical Doctor

Posted Tue 26 Aug 2008 4:16pm friendship. Dr. Rumberger is not only a world-renowned scientist in the world of cardiac imaging and heart scanning, but also a humanitarian and gentleman. From the very first day I met Dr. Rumberger many years ago, when he answered my many silly and naive questions about heart scans, I came to appreciate his deep and genuine interest in improving the world Read on »

HeartScan by Seth Roberts .. Doctor of Philosophy

Posted Fri 14 Aug 2009 4:26pm A few months ago, because of this blog, I got a free heart scan from HeartScan in Walnut Creek. It’s a multi-level X-ray of your heart and is scored to indicate your heart...’s impressive about these scans is three-fold: 1. The derived scores are strongly correlated with risk of heart disease death. This isn’t surprising because they are actually looking Read on »