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An Increasing Mexican Population with Metabolic Syndrome-Emerging Role of Hybrid SPECT/CT and PET/CT in Cardiovascular Disease Detection
- Source :
- Current Cardiovascular Imaging Reports. 8
- Publication Year :
- 2015
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2015.
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Abstract
- Metabolic syndrome represents a growing burden in the Mexican population with an increasing presence as evidenced by the most recent epidemiological data, showing a prevalence of 49.8 % in 2006. The cardiovascular hazard of metabolic syndrome has been proven in numerous occasions; these patients present an increased risk of cardiovascular dis- ease not only because of epicardial coronary occlusion but also from microvascular disease secondary to endothelial dysfunction. Myocardial perfusion imaging using both single-photon emission computed tomography and positron emission tomography can be effectively used for the evaluation of established coronary artery disease as well as in the assessment of high-risk asymptomatic pa- tients. In this review, we briefly discuss the role of myo- cardial perfusion imaging studies and its current and po- tential applications for patients with metabolic syndrome.
- Subjects :
- PET-CT
medicine.medical_specialty
Histology
medicine.diagnostic_test
business.industry
Perfusion scanning
Cell Biology
medicine.disease
Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology
Coronary artery disease
Myocardial perfusion imaging
Positron emission tomography
Coronary occlusion
Medicine
Radiology
Metabolic syndrome
business
Emission computed tomography
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- ISSN :
- 19419074 and 19419066
- Volume :
- 8
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Current Cardiovascular Imaging Reports
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........5ea02544e14ff6e8818576878948fbff