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Should rads report coronary calcium?
Should radiologists report coronary calcium deposits found on CT scans performed for noncardiac indications? Most people would say yes, but that's not what's going down in the real world, according to an article by international editor Eric Barnes in our CT Digital Community.
Researchers from Michigan and Illinois reviewed hundreds of CT scans performed at the University of Chicago to see how many patients referred for noncardiac CT who had visible coronary calcium actually had the finding mentioned in the radiology report. Many didn't, the study group found.
Part of the problem is that medical societies haven't included noncardiac CT scans in their clinical guidelines for reporting coronary calcium -- leaving radiologists to figure out for themselves what to do.
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