The heart

X-ray

• Assessing heart size

CT with i.v. contrast

• Calcium score, without i.v. contrast. To assess the risk of developing coronary heart disease

 

CT without i.v. contrast

• To more easily exclude coronary illness
• With angina symptoms and negative or inconclusive exercise ECG.
• Suspected anomalies in the coronary arteries

MRI

Not currently performed at Unilabs' departments.

• With cardiomyopathy
• Suspected tumours
• Viability examination after infarction
• Investigation of arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia (ARVD)