Nuclear cardiac testing is most appropriate in the diagnosis of CAD in patients who have an intermediate likelihood of disease. Low-risk patients may need no additional testing, while high-risk ...

While your heart pumps blood to the rest of your body, a network of arteries known as coronary arteries brings blood to your heart muscle. If these get too narrow, it can be hard for your heart to get ...

Myocardial Perfusion Imaging Test (MIBI): shows how well blood flows through or perfuses your heart. It can show both the areas of the heart muscle that aren't getting enough blood flow and how well ...

Not every center schedules its rest and stress studies the same way; however, the test is always performed at rest and at stress to see how your heart and blood vessels are functioning. In the event ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Among patients who underwent a stress myocardial perfusion PET scan, increasing magnitude of stress myocardial ...

The nuclear stress test can show how blood flows through your heart muscles. This reveals how well the heart pumps blood and areas of your heart muscles that do not get enough blood. Nuclear stress is ...

A stress test can help doctors diagnose certain heart conditions, but it’s a good idea to consider ages when deciding who might undergo this exercise-based screening. Share on Pinterest FG Trade/Getty ...

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To detect in-stent restenosis among patients with coronary stents, a new study shows the potential for improved diagnostic accuracy by adding computed tomography perfusion imaging to coronary CT ...