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- Title
Is cardiac nuclear imaging helpful for the faint of heart?
- Authors
Miller, Todd D.; Askew, J. Wells; Shen, Win-Kuang
- Abstract
As expected, few patients (38, 2.9%) had exercise-induced syncope, the patient subset in whom guidelines[5],[6] recommend stress testing. Thus, the application of PET correctly identified 47 patients from the entire PET population of 551 patients (8.5%) with CAD. The imaging modality was positron emission tomography (PET) in 48% and single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) in 52%. The higher pre-test likelihood of PET over SPECT patients was driven by an approximate 10% point difference between intermediate- and low-likelihood patients.
- Subjects
SYNCOPE; CARDIAC imaging; SINGLE-photon emission computed tomography; MYOCARDIAL perfusion imaging
- Publication
Journal of Nuclear Cardiology, 2021, Vol 28, Issue 6, p2907
- ISSN
1071-3581
- Publication type
Editorial
- DOI
10.1007/s12350-020-02301-2