• 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
First and foremost, the Siemens cardiac CT scanner is the finest most advanced imaging
equipment available today for the diagnosis heart conditions. It allows visualization
of the heart and its vessels in a non-invasive procedure performed in about 10 minutes
in our outpatient facility.