EBT heart scan improves early detection of disease

Leonard Velick should be dead today. Instead, he’s playing tennis four times a week, golfing once a week, walking daily and biking and hiking all over the place. Not bad for a 69-year-old.

Eight months ago Velick was doing all those things, too, but with an artery next to his heart that was almost completely blocked. And he had no idea. And after two tests in February, neither did his doctor, Jamie J. Doucet, at the Colorado Cardiovascular Center.

“They did a blood test, it came back clear. They did a stress test, perfect,” Velick said.

“Dr. Doucet wasn’t satisfied. He…