Key result
Advanced measurements of coronary artery calcium scoring, including vessel-specific mapping, may guide future decisions in myocardial revascularization and clinical practice.
Why the study?
As myocardial revascularization practices change and the prognostic significance of coronary artery calcium scoring becomes recognized, advanced CAC evaluation techniques may affect decisions in the catheterization lab and operative theaters.
Advanced measurements of coronary calcium scores, including vessel-specific scoring and mapping, may influence future decisions in myocardial revascularization.
Coronary artery calcium (CAC) scoring has emerged as a marker of the burden of atheromatous disease and has been included in scoring systems. The practice of myocardial revascularization, considering percutaneous procedures or surgical strategies, is dramatically changing over years and the prognostic significance of CAC scoring is gradually being conceived. In this interdisciplinary scenario, vessel specific calcium scoring, mapping of coronary calcification and its integration with functional assessment of coronary artery disease might change the future decisions in the catheterization lab and operative theaters. This article summarizes CAC evaluation techniques and its implications in clinical practice.
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Nenna et al. (2021) conducted a review in Coronary artery disease. Coronary artery calcium (CAC) scoring was evaluated. Advanced measurements of coronary artery calcium scoring, including vessel-specific mapping, may guide future decisions in myocardial revascularization and clinical practice.
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