I’ll be coming into the USA this summer and I wanted to do a CCTA scan. However, the companies that offer it are telling me I need a doctor’s referral. I don’t have a doctor in the USA and the ones I know want to charge me $400 USD for a referral. Can anyone here be of assistance as to how to go about this? @DrFraser
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I just had this done but no results yet though they did call to warn me about lumps in my lungs and tried to refer me to a pulmonologist. I know about the lumps as they are detailed every time I’ve gotten a CAC and they’re not growing. Just detritus from years of abuse.
I did very little research about it and was surprised it was much easier than I thought it would be. Main thing was they wanted the heartbeat slow and regular so had me take metoprolol the night before. It worked as the heartbeat was low 50’s or high 40’s. The contrast was an iodine derivative of some sort given through IV in the arm when in the machine. Also gave me nitroglycerine just as I went into the machine. Didn’t take long. The machine said when to hold breath and breathe. Easy peasy.
I had confused CCTA with coronary angiogram where they thread a catheter and put the dye right next to the heart. Glad we didn’t have to do that. There is also AI which calculates something called FAI. This is an index that indicates the amount of inflammation. We don’t really do it here in the states yet, though they would use my exact CCTA results. Just software. Where’s the risk? It’s done by a company called Caristo Diagnostics. It’s called CaRi-heart Ai software. Done in UK and Europe but not cleared in the US yet.
Don’t they do CCTA in HK?
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Try PushHealth online.
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