You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life

Site design and maintenance by: >>> ==>∞ to infinity.

The latest from LegacyJournal.info as of:        Thursday, 2008-08-28
Current US Pacific Coast Time:    00:49:47

BYLINE: Content that consistently informs with clarity, class, context, credibility and character.

MOTTOS: Faster, Better, Easier, and Cheaper.   Arete, Fait Lux, Meliora

GOALS: To play with ideas, trends, people, events, products and places that are fun, interesting, and perhaps even important.

Try a keyword site search using "Obama" .

* Listing of Entries Archived by Category using a extensive, sql alphabetized, Grouping. Be patient, the listing is long.
** Listing of Entries Archived by Date A real-time desc sql sort by Date is used.

Archives of Journal Entries: Organized by * Category and by ** Date.

* Listing of Entries Archived by Category using a extensive, sql alphabetized, Grouping. Be patient, the listing is long.
** Listing of Entries Archived by Date A real-time desc sql sort by Date is used.

30 of our most Recent Postings:

LogRoller® : Keyword searching our LegacyJournal postings begins here.

[ Tuesday, October 16, 2007 05:31 ]

Legacy Journal: Medicine: Cardiology:Imaging: What is your Calcium Score?

Section:
Health and Medicine

Summary:
The current wow factor technology in diagnostic medicine is imaging. One example is non-invasive, multiple slice, spiral duel source CT the heart. Post imaging processing then “reconstructs” a dynamic multi-dimensional image of the heart, coronary arteries, and their main branches with rapidly improving resolution. The reconstruction is software based. One of data set outputs is a Calcium Score. That score is roughly correlated with gross mortality over time in populations followed for up to ten years.

Main:
The current cost of the test at Strong URMC is $1100. The risk is low in patients who are not sensitive to contrast dye, have good micro-vascular systems, have a normalized cardiac rhythm, and are not at risk for radiation induced cancer. Dye allergy, diabetics, cardiac dysrhythmias and young women are not currently considered to be appropriate candidates for the procedure. Patients presenting to the ER with symptoms consistent with symptoms consistent the “Deadly Triad” of Rule Out myocardial ischemia, vs dissecting thoracic aneurysm, vs pulmonary embolism are currently excluded.

The use of the procedure in following patients post CABAG, post coronary balloon dilation with or without stent placement is unclear.

* The local Rochester health insurance Big Three requires prior authorization for coverage.

* Currently, the Unit is accepting self-referral, self pay, executive physical patients.

So, is the Calcium Score about to replace the Cholesterol level as a topic of cocktail conversation? Stay tuned.

More:

Footnotes:

Posted by: webscribe2 on 10/16 at 05:31 AM
Amazing: • Calendar: • Diet, Nutrition & Health: • Exercise and Health: • Gate Keeper: • Medicine: • News: • Regional: • Science and Technology: • Standards: • Young at Heart: • What is Hot?: • (0) Comments: • (0) Trackbacks: • Permalink:

Powered by ExpressionEngine: 1.6.4, build 20080808 with a number of modules including: Picture Image Gallery 1.0 , Wiki 1.1, Simple Commerce, and Discussion Forum 2.1, build, 20080808 We also use Multiple Site Manager 1.0 ( MSM) , build, 20080808, and the Tag 2.1.1 module, build 20080417 for and Category Management. We also use the Acronym 1.5 Module from Solspace.

We are hosted in Santa Rosa, CA, in the great North Bay country, the gateway to the Redwood Empire.

This site is illuminated by LAMP from our host, Sonic (sonic.net) of Sonoma County, CA.

Currrently, we publish using OSX, XP, and Linux, browser test on FireFox 2.0.0.14.X and 3.0, use Google Apps, and favor the speed of broadband.

Current US Pacific Coast (West Coast, PDT) Date/Time is Thursday, 2008-08-28 --- 00:49:47

Branded by:

AKA: webscribe2. CMS tool is Expression Engine 1.6.4, build 20080808