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High Res Heart CT Scans Risk for Patients

July 20, 2007 By MedNews Leave a Comment

With more and more technologies becoming available, doctors are finding that they must increasingly weigh the side effects of testing procedures.

After gaining FDA approval in 2004, CT angiography, a high resolution scan of the heart for blocked arteries, has been much more widely used. However, there is a risk–especially to younger people, as these scans expose patients to 20 times the amount of radiation as a mammogram.

Researchers reported that a CT angiography should be used sparingly, especially on young women, who have a 1-in-143 chance of developing cancer after just one high resolution CT scan.
The study was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Filed Under: Radiology Tagged With: CT scan



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