Coronary CT Angiogram

Cardia Vision

See soft (potentially vulnerable) and calcified atherosclerotic plaque in your coronary arteries, if present.
Review the results of your Coronary CT Angiogram at the time of the examination. No waiting!
Dictated report by a board-certified radiologist sent to you and your referring clinician.
Referral to cardiologist or cardiothoracic surgeon, if necessary.
$2000 *

A Coronary CT Angiogram is the most advanced noninvasive heart scan available.
It uses CT imaging to create detailed 3D images of your coronary arteries and detect early heart disease.
Fast, comfortable scan
High-resolution imaging

Junk in your arteries is atherosclerosis.
It is leading cause of a heart attack and sudden death.
Soft plaque is more likely to rupture than calcified plaque (SCOT HEART trial2020).
A Coronary CT Angiogram is the only noninvasive way to see soft plaque in the arteries that supply your heart.
Medications melt soft plaque (LOCATE trial-2024). So at Cardia Vision, we like to say it is all good news. If you have disease, it can be treated. If you don’t, good news too.

A Coronary CT Angiogram is the hardest CT scan to perform so CT technologist and radiologists with advanced training are required to perform and interpret the images. A calcium score is a quick simple test.
Contrast is used for a CCTA but not a calcium score. It enables a radiologist to see the difference between potentially vulnerable soft plaque and the blood. Contrast is not used with a calcium score so soft plaque cannot be seen.
With contrast, the blood looks white and the soft plaque looks gray on a CCTA. On a calcium score, blood and soft plaque look the same.
Heart rate lowering medications are often necessary to get the best view of the coronary arteries on a CCTA. Heart rate lowering medications are not used with calcium scores.
Nitroglycerine is used to dilate the coronary arteries to best see them on a CCTA. Nitroglycerine is not used with calcium scores.

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At Cardia Vision, we recommend a Coronary CT Angiogram for men at 40 years or older and women at 50 years or older with risk factors such as high cholesterol, elevated lipoprotein a, family history, diabetes, pre-diabetes, high blood pressure, obesity, excessive alcohol consumption, working as a first responder, possibly hormone use, periodontal disease, complications in pregnancy such as gestational diabetes and preeclapsia, etc.
10 years older without risk factors.
If you have a 1st degree relative who had a heart attack, consider a Coronary CT Angiogram 10 years younger than their first event.

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