Cardiac Imaging Chicago

About Cardiac Imaging

Heart Scan Of Chicago The new 64 cardiac imaging procedure has proven to be a breakthrough in technology for the diagnosis of heart disease. The procedure is safe, fast, lasting approximately 10 minutes, and is non-invasive.

This is the procedure offered at Heart Scan of Chicago. Using the Siemens SOMATOM Sensation 64, Heart Scan of Chicago offers the finest technology available. This non-invasive procedure is replacing the older, traditional, invasive procedure – cardiac catheterization or angiography – performed in a hospital and usually requiring anesthesia and a one day hospital stay.

A cardiac CT scan can provide an image of the heart and its arteries so detailed that the presence of plaque, narrowing or stenosis of the arteries, calcium scoring and abnormal heart vessels can be determined with a comparable degree of detail and accuracy previously only available through an invasive procedure such as cardiac catheterization or angiography. The presence of any of these conditions could put an individual, even a strong healthy athlete or someone with no symptoms, at risk for heart disease.

Wellness Heart Many people assume that because they have no symptoms, they do not have heart disease. This is not correct. For 150,000 Americans every year, the first and only symptom of heart disease is a fatal heart attack. Thus diagnosis becomes extremely important for everyone.

What is a Cardiac CT Scan ?

At Heart Scan of Chicago, we perform a full and complete scan of your heart, its coronary arteries, the heart valves and their function, and the pumping action of the heart itself. We consider the size of the heart and the thickness of the wall of the heart chambers. We even review the surrounding area of the heart, including the lungs and the spine. With the 64 slice cardiac CT scan, the doctors at Heart Scan of Chicago determine hard plaque from soft plaque ( a calcium score cannot ). They can visualize if the plaque, if it exists, is inside the artery or if it is outside and where exactly is the build up located.

Siemens National Show Site

Heart Scan of Chicago has been designated by Siemens as a National Show Site. The Siemens company is the international leader in the development of diagnostic imaging.

Heart Scan of Chicago is proud to be chosen as a National Show Site and joins the ranks of other show sites such as the Mayo Clinic, Massachusetts General Hospital in conjunction with Harvard Medical School, Cabrini Medical Center in New York, the Cleveland Clinic and a few other select teaching hospitals.

NEWS

• 1 in 3 adults – both men and women - has some form of cardiovascular disease.

• About every 26 seconds an American will suffer a coronary event and about every minute someone will die from one.

• Each year about 1.5 million Americans will have a heart attack with absolutely no warning signs.
For about half of those, the heart attack will be fatal.

• In 90% of adult victims of sudden cardiac death, two or more major coronary arteries are narrowed or blocked.

• Brain death and permanent death start to occur in just 4-6 minutes after someone experiences cardiac arrest.

• The cardiac 64 CT scan provides 3-D images of the heart so detailed heart disease can be detected even at the earliest stages. It is in the earliest stages that heart disease is the most treatable.

• In the time it took to read this, two people had a coronary event and one of them died.

Source: American Heart Association-2006 Update

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