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High Coronary Calcium Score: How do others feel emotionally?
Heart & Blood Health | Last Active: Feb 13 9:01am | Replies (640)Comment receiving replies
Just joined this group and love it but not sure how to make a post but wanted to share. My husband; 76; very athletic in good shape had a molecular CAT scan and arteries were so plugged , dye could not get through. Then he had a calcium screen and his score was 2330; they were shocked he hadn't had massive heart attack and was so active; told him to go home; do nothing and be close to ER till they could get him into surgery; just yesterday he had an angiogram and had 90 , 70 and 70 % blockage and he's having preop next week and triple by pass soon after. Would have been sooner but we are in Canada and many of our operating rooms have not been working 100% (not even close); holding for Covid patients. My advice; get an angiogram; it can show why other test can't.
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All the best to your husband on his heart surgery. Did he have any indications, such as shortness of breath, that lead to the CT scans and angiogram? Age and genetics play a role, despite his athletic fitness level. My cardiologist does not want to do an angiogram, because my exercise stress test with echocardiogram showed no issues. I'm 72, a few years younger than your husband, and follow all the suggested heart-health guidelines. As bluesdoc, a physician, has mentioned, there's a lot we don't know yet about interpreting high CAC scores.