[Coronary artery calcification fluoroscopy. A report on procedure of detection and clinical significance (author's transl)].

The methodology of cardiac fluoroscopy and the clinical significance of the coronary artery calcification are judged on the basis of a study on the group of 396 normal persons, 22.72% of whom resulted to suffer from it, while the report says that 46.80% of a group of 94 patients with coronary artery disease suffer from the same. In normal people the coronary artery calcification has practically the same frequency in both sexes and increases with the age, while in patients with coronary artery diseases there is a higher frequency in the fifth decade and in male sex. The discovery of calcification in all cases always shows an advanced coronary atherosclerosis. In the patients with clinical coronary artery diseases, there are also evidence of significative obstructive lesion. The fluoroscopy of the heart is the most powerful tool for the diagnosis of coronary artery calcification in vivo, it is easy to be used and gives diagnostic information of great value in the study of a coronary artery disease.