How We Use The Ultrafast CT Scan 
(Heart Check America)

The heart check CT scan is a non invasive method of screening patients for the presence of “silent” coronary disease. It does so by measuring calcification in the coronary arteries, which statistically directly correlates with arteriosclerotic plaque burden and the risk of a coronary event. Without the risk associated with angiography, valuable information can be obtained which can serve to help patients prevent future heart attacks. 

I remember how much opposition there was to this new test in the mid 90’s by cardiologists and cardiac surgeons. They literally tried to squash the test, perhaps thinking that if too many people got early warning of heart disease then the angiogram and bypass surgery business might suffer. The test, however, has managed to survive and even to an extent fight its way into the mainstream. It will occasionally even be prescribed for patients by orthodox physicians. Now I am amused at how these physicians are using the test.

I use it as an early intervention test which basically shows us the final common pathway of a variety of risk factors the patient may have from blood testing, and from life style (like smoking habits). It helps me answer the question “Have the adverse risk factors brought this patient to a point of increased risk because of evident plaque burden in the coronary arteries?” 

If the answer is yes, because the test has shown an abnormal accumulation of coronary artery calcium, then the patient has the incentive and motivation to follow an individually tailored plan of treatment designed to reduce his risk. 

Having found that they could not kill the test, orthodox heart doctors now have adopted an “if you can’t beat them, join them” approach. They use abnormal results to get people on what I call the “conveyor belt” that leads to bypass surgery or angioplasty. It goes like this:

“Your Ultrafast CT is abnormal so you have plaque and even though you have no symptoms we must do an angiogram. Your angiogram is abnormal. You have severe blockages. You are a walking time bomb. You must have bypass surgery immediately.”

This is crafty, but wrong. Patients free of symptoms with a positive ultrafast result need a complete examination and biochemical risk factor workup, natural medicine assessment, and nutritional and possibly intravenous chelation therapy. Early intervention can save lives.

Unfortunately this test has not turned out to be sensitive enough to be used as a monitor for treatment progress, and it is not accurate in patients who have had any kind of instrumentation (like angiograms, angioplasties, or bypass surgery). Interestingly all those procedures greatly speed up the coronary calcification process and skew the results! But this test is an important part of our program of early recognition and intervention for patients with coronary heart disease concerns. I feel anyone with a strong family history of heart problems should get the baseline exam done around 35 years of age, and then every year or two afterwards depending on the result. For general health screening in healthy adults, get the first test at age 40, and then every two to three years until the score is no longer zero. When that happens the test should be done yearly to determine the rate of change. 

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