What is a Ultrafast Heart CT Scan?

The Ultrafast CT Scan Screening of the Heart is a quick and simple test which assesses your risk of heart attack by detecting and measuring the amount of calcium build-up in your coronary arteries.
The test allows the radiologist to determine whether a patient has a serious risk of significant narrowing of blood vessels to the heart. More importantly, it allows physicians to find hardened arteries early, allowing treatment with medication and lifestyle changes.
This is a screening that can precede more invasive tests such as a stress test and angiogram. The Ultrafast CT Scan Screening of the Heart is considered to be one of the best available tests to predict the risk of heart attack in apparently healthy people.

Scanning spares heart patients the needle

Scanners which take three-dimensional pictures of the heart and its blood vessels could take the discomfort and risk out of diagnosing coronary artery disease. Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) technology is already widely used in hospitals, often to diagnose the extent of cancers by providing a detailed 3-D image of tumours. But few use it to examine patients who are showing the symptoms of heart disease, relying instead on needle angiography. This involves inserting a fine tube, usually into an artery at the groin, usually under local anaesthetic, and passing it all the way to the blood vessels surrounding the heart, where dye is injected which will show up on X-rays.