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Touchdown! Greaser!
Older senior captain whom I've been taking care of for some years, advised that the doc thinks a Coronary calcium scan is appropriate. Score comes back 1,800. Went immediatetly to cath lab. Result- a single algebraic tomographic 8.4% lesion in the LAD. How do they detect 8.4%- I can't even see it on the angiogram!
8.4. REALLY? not 8.3? not 8.434? WTH does that mean? I upload everything needed for the FAA's CAD protocol EXCEPT I do not recommend he run the treadmill. Why? The TMT in this low range of "disease" is but a proxy for the chat and the guy has the CATH!
FAA: "Well since the change in the rule...we've had many airmen enter the CAD protocol from new directions...."
ME: "We all know that CAD starts by age 12 (Wissler, et al, J. Path ~1968)...and is the even CAD?
Well, in the end he permitted the issuance.
Moral: DO NOT GET A CORONARY CALCIUM Scan. Enterprenurial medicne at its worst!
If you really want to know, run the treadmill....
8.4. REALLY? not 8.3? not 8.434? WTH does that mean? I upload everything needed for the FAA's CAD protocol EXCEPT I do not recommend he run the treadmill. Why? The TMT in this low range of "disease" is but a proxy for the chat and the guy has the CATH!
FAA: "Well since the change in the rule...we've had many airmen enter the CAD protocol from new directions...."
ME: "We all know that CAD starts by age 12 (Wissler, et al, J. Path ~1968)...and is the even CAD?
Well, in the end he permitted the issuance.
Moral: DO NOT GET A CORONARY CALCIUM Scan. Enterprenurial medicne at its worst!
If you really want to know, run the treadmill....
