Coronary Calcium Screening

INTEGRIS Health Heart and Vascular Institute of Northwest Oklahoma offers heart scans, which capture images of your heart and coronary arteries to precisely measure calcium deposits. This helps assess your risk of coronary artery disease in time for preventive action.

Heart scan and calcium scoring:

• A heart scan, or cardiac CT scan, is a noninvasive medical test that aids in diagnosing and treating conditions.
• It uses x-ray equipment and computers to create detailed cross-sectional images of the body, viewable on a monitor, printed or saved to a CD.
• A cardiac CT scan detects calcified plaque in coronary arteries, indicating coronary artery disease (CAD), which increases heart attack risk.
• Plaque buildup can narrow or block arteries, causing chest pain or heart attacks. The calcium detected in a cardiac CT scan serves as a prognostic tool, expressed as a calcium score.

Who should receive a heart scan?

Those who have never experienced chest pain, but have risk factors like family history, high blood pressure, diabetes, inactivity or obesity, should consider a $40 heart scan. It's a quick and affordable way to gain peace of mind.