Does cardiac computed tomography improve risk stratification and exclusion of coronary artery disease in mature athletes?
Cardiac CT and CAC scoring can effectively exclude coronary artery disease and stratify cardiovascular risk in mature athletes during pre-participation screening.
Coronary computed tomography angiography can be used in pre-participation screening of mature athletes to increase the negative predictive value for excluding coronary artery disease.The identification of coronary artery calcium score = 0 in an athlete can improve risk stratification, since this athlete can be reasonably managed as an individual with low cardiovascular risk.
Christou et al. (Mon,) studied this question.