Frecuencia de calcificaciones en arterias coronarias identificadas incidentalmente en tomografía de tórax en pacientes entre 45-90 años, en Medimagen, 2019 – 2022

Abstract

Background: Vascular calcification is a powerful predictor of cardiovascular and overall mortality. Cardiac calcifications usually secondary to a degenerative process are a frequent incidental finding in tomography, which offers relevant information to establish an adequate medical or surgical treatment. Purpose: To determine the frequency of coronary artery calcifications incidentally identified on chest CT in patients aged 45-90 years, in Medimagen, 2019-2022. Methodology: We will proceed to the analysis and tabulation of data by means of a retrospective descriptive method, cross-sectional, in which information will be collected from all patients who underwent a simple tomographic study of the thorax in the established period in the Centro de Diagnóstico por Imagen Medimagen, the same will be exposed with descriptive statistics. Use of results: This study will determine the prevalence of patients with coronary artery calcifications identified incidentally by simple chest tomography in the established age range and who were seen at the Medimaging Diagnostic Imaging Center. Conclusion: It was concluded that the frequency of calcifications in coronary arteries diagnosed incidentally by simple chest tomography mainly affects males between 56 and 60 years of age, with a more frequent morphological location in the anterior descending artery, showing similar results to other studies