The role of imaging in defining cardiovascular risk to help cancer patient management: a scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This scoping review explores the potential role of cancer-staging chest CT scans in assessing cardiovascular (CV) risk in cancer patients. It aims to evaluate: (1) the correlation between non-gated chest CT and the conventional Agatston score from cardiac CT; (2) the association between coronary calcium scores from non-gated chest CT and CV risk in non-oncological patients; (3) the link between coronary calcium assessed by non-gated chest CT and CV events or endothelial damage in cancer patients.

Methods

Three different searches were performed on PubMed, according to the three steps described above. Both original articles and systematic reviews were included.

Results

Many studies in the literature have found a strong correlation between coronary calcium scor

SUBMITTER: Fari R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11832977 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature