Bethesda, MD - Even minor perfusion abnormalities seen on SPECT imaging in African American and Hispanic patients can predict major cardiovascular events, suggesting that SPECT information may be ...

The value of age in predicting abnormal SPECT MPI is maintained across MPI test appropriateness categories. Appropriate testing identifies a greater prevalence of abnormal MPI in patients younger than ...

Background: Cardiac syndrome X is defined by a typical angina pectoris with normal or near normal (stenosis <40%) coronary angiogram with or without electrocardiogram (ECG) change or atypical angina ...

Long-term follow-up of the CE-MARC study suggests that cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) could be a better predictor of cardiovascular events than single-photon emission computed tomography ...

The study cohort consisted of 410 patients (271 men and 139 women) mostly from Central Greece, ranging in age from 40 to 87 years (mean age 61.4±10.3 years). In total, 904 patients were referred ...

4.1.1 The Assessment Report and the submissions reviewed the literature and focused on two aspects separately: the diagnostic performance of SPECT, and its long-term prognostic value. Much of the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Noninvasive testing using SPECT, PET or coronary CTA played only a small role in physicians’ decisions to refer ...

Adding functional imaging to structural imaging of patients with ventricular tachycardia (VT) has the potential to improve current VT ablation strategies, according to new research. Adding functional ...

Los Angeles, California…Diabetic patients who show no symptoms may still be at risk for cardiovascular disease, according to information reported at the Society of Nuclear Medicine's (SNM) 49th Annual ...

Before concussions can be treated it's best to understand what is really happening in the brain, and the authors of a study in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease claim to have made some progress.