Wow @WendyBG that sounds excellent. I just got back from my CTA with FFR and apparently the first part of the test (without contrast) checks for calcium buildup, and the second part of the test (with contrast) checks flow rate. They used some other phrase for flow rate, but I don’t recall what it was. Results should be send to my cardiologist shortly.
I did have a slight negative side effect after the test. I felt a bout of nausea immediately after they were done, and I vomited a [very] small amount (and they had a bag ready for it). They say it may be from the contrast. No big deal.
A little more information and insights from Anthony Pearson…..mainly because, from the description given, it reads as if @MarkR had CAC scan and Coronary CT angiogram back to back?
Always interesting examples from clinical cases in his articles too. Guy in his early 60s and Agatson score in the low 100s in this case….
The MESA App-Estimating Your Risk of Cardiovascular Disease With And Without Coronary Calcium Score – The Skeptical Cardiologist https://share.google/SpVeVcwVYsII3fYVm
P.S (edit) …always useful to click on the hyperlinks too. Especially if one is of the persuasion that ASCVD/coronary artery disease is an old person’s disease, simply because the process just happens to build with the passage of time (decades not years)
