Understanding an individual’s risk of developing heart attacks is fundamental. It allows personalised lifestyle improvements and informs on decisions regarding preventative medicines and strategies that can greatly reduce the risk of a heart attack. Traditional risk scoring techniques (examples include QRISK3 and Framingham), are used to make decisions regarding prescribing of preventative medicines such as statins and aspirin in those who have not had a heart attack. The development of cardiac CT allows us to visualise the heart arteries in a non-invasive way. We can detect if an individual has evidence of coronary artery disease, if so how much of the disease is present, and if it is present would an individual benefit from taking preventative medicines.
Furthermore, novel AI-derived assessments can help look at the fat around the heart arteries to give even greater precision on an induvial risk (CARISTO). This “bolt-on” to the CT greatly enhances the risk predication and provides patients an extremely useful understanding of their true heart attack risk. I am happy to provide this service to patients at my clinic at Venturi Cardiology, Birchwood.
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If you are interested in discussing heart attack risk and how Cardiac CT and CARISTO may help you then book an appointment.
These prices are for self-paying patients. Patients with private medical insurance can also book online through this website and details (authorisation code and policy number) will be collected by the host institution (Spire Murrayfield or Venturi Cardiology). By booking this service you confirm you are happy for us to share your details contact with Spire Murrayfield and/or Venturi Cardiology for the purposes of booking appointments.
