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 ...

January 8, 2010 (Houston, Texas) — A single-photon emission computed-tomography (SPECT) myocardial perfusion imaging study of the patient at rest is unnecessary if the results of the patient's "stress ...

Many of these investigations employed older techniques of rCBF evaluation. Recently, single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) has been used for evaluation of rCBF in hypertensive patients.

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 ...

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 ...

"Typically, when a patient presents with chest pain and the [SPECT] test result is normal, we tell them everything looks fine, but this may not be the case," says John Mahmarian, M.D., a cardiologist ...

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 ...

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 ...

A cardiac hybrid imaging technique that fuses SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) with coronary CT angiography (CCTA) scans can help predict major adverse cardiac events in patients suspected of ...

Forty European centers participated in this phase III study. During the period 2003–2005, 326 patients (age 55–90 years) with clinical diagnoses of probable DLB, possible DLB or non-DLB dementia ...