DETECTION AND SIGNIFICANCE OF CORONARY CA LCIFICATIONS

Coronary calcifications (CC) are the witness of atheromatous disease b ecause they lies in intima. This is a best stamp of coronary atheromat osis than all the well know risk factors. CC scores is perfectly estim ated by EBT. The reproductibility expressed in logarithm data is 7,2% in inter-examination, 1,3% in inter-observers, 2% in intra-observers [ 4]. CC detection is more specific in young population than in old popu lation because CC appear and increase with age in asymptomatic patient s [12]. But the score curve raised higher in symptomatic than in asymp tomatic subjects. A patient with an abnormal score for his age will ha ve 5 to 10% of ischemic cardiac disease during the following 6 months [11].