Volume : VII, Issue : IV, April - 2018

Study of Coronary Artery Calcium Scoring Significance in Patients with STEMI in a Territory Care Center

Dr. P. Pachaiyappan, Dr. P. Gnanavel

Abstract :

 Introduction: Coronary artery calcication (CAC) is part of development of atherosclerosis, occurs almost exclusively in atherosclerotic arteries

and is absent in the normal vessel wall. Coronary artery calcication occurs in small amounts in the early lesion of atherosclerosis that appear in the
second and third decades of life, but it is found more frequently in advanced lesions and in older age. The aim of this paper is to study the
comparison of CAC score in patients with obstructive and non obstructive CAD and in patients with single and multi vessel disease.
Materials and Methods: This study is a prospective observational study involving 100 patients who were admitted in the department of
cardiology of Govt.Mohan Kumaramanagalam Medical College between June 2015 to Feb 2018
Results: The study population included 100 patients (89 males and 11 females) admitted to department of cardiology, GMKMCH, Salem. The
mean age of study group is 5515 years. This study population contains predominantly males (90%). One half of population had hypertension and
one fourth of the study group are diabetic. CAC scores showed good correlation in patients with obstructive CAD especially in elderly, Diabetics
and family history of CAD
Conclusion: Our study reported that 128 slice MDCT derived CAC score is a useful tool to assess angiographic scoring in post MI population.
CAC score is not useful to identify infarct related artery and there was no linear correlation between CAC score and the number of vessel
involvement.

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Article: Download PDF   DOI : 10.36106/ijsr  

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Dr.P.Pachaiyappan, Dr.P.Gnanavel, Study of Coronary Artery Calcium Scoring Significance in Patients with STEMI in a Territory Care Center, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH : Volume-7 | Issue-4 | April-2018


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