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Albert Graham,
Backyard Pool Drainer
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Coronary artery disease is treated with lifestyle changes and medications to help reduce high cholesterol, control high blood pressure, and manage other risk factors that increase a person's risk of heart attack, stroke, and other complications.
It is found that coronary artery disease risk in diabetic subjects at any given plasma cholesterol level was approximately four times greater than in non- diabetic patients.
Statins have been shown to reduce total mortality in patients with established coronary artery disease and to prevent the onset of a first coronary event in patients without coronary artery disease.
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Miles Rhodes,
Wine Taster
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In coronary artery disease, cholesterol and blood fats accumulate and harden into “plaque” inside the arterial walls.
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Adam Findley,
Professional Motivator
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Coronary angiography is needed to exclude the possibility of coronary artery disease if the thallium-201 imaging suggests cardiac involvement.
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Billie Kirgan,
Machinist
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CAD = coronary artery disease; CABG = coronary artery bypass graft; MI = myocardial infarction.
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Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist
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The slices are transformed into detailed 3-D color images that aid in detecting traces of calcification in the coronary arteries, the earliest sign of heart disease and any disease that has altered the appearance of the internal organs.
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Dan Toomey,
Computer Salesman
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The coverage is for scans performed at rest or with pharmacological stress for the noninvasive imaging of the perfusion of the heart for the diagnosis and management of patients with known or suspected coronary artery disease provided the PET scan is performed in place of a SPECT scan or following a SPECT scan that was inconclusive.
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