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The role of myocardial perfusion imaging in special populations: Women, diabetics, and heart failure
- Source :
- Seminars in Nuclear Medicine. 35:52-61
- Publication Year :
- 2005
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2005.
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Abstract
- Cardiovascular disease and its manifestations remain a major worldwide public health problem. Despite significant advances in diagnosis and treatment, coronary artery disease remains the leading cause of death of men and women in the developed world. Early and accurate diagnosis of coronary artery disease is crucial if men and women are to have improved outcomes. The continuous and dramatic growth in the field of nuclear cardiology during the past 2 decades has accounted for its central role in the clinical evaluation of patients with known or suspected coronary heart disease. The development of electrocardiogram-gated single photon emission tomography has facilitated the expansion of nuclear cardiology studies from the evaluation of myocardial perfusion alone to the evaluation of both perfusion and ventricular function data in a single study. Myocardial perfusion imaging with electrocardiogram-gated single photon emission tomography, with its ability to provide information about the physiologic significance of coronary stenosis, left ventricular function, and risk assessment of patients with coronary artery disease, is ideally suited for the diagnostic and prognostic evaluation of the patient who is at high to intermediate risk for ischemic heart disease.
- Subjects :
- Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Myocardial Ischemia
Comorbidity
Coronary Artery Disease
Disease
Risk Assessment
Diabetes Complications
Coronary artery disease
Ventricular Dysfunction, Left
Myocardial perfusion imaging
Risk Factors
Internal medicine
medicine
Humans
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging
Myocardial infarction
Practice Patterns, Physicians'
Sex Distribution
Radionuclide Imaging
Heart Failure
Clinical Trials as Topic
Framingham Risk Score
medicine.diagnostic_test
business.industry
Incidence
Prognosis
medicine.disease
Heart failure
Cardiology
Women's Health
Female
Radiology
business
Perfusion
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00012998
- Volume :
- 35
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Seminars in Nuclear Medicine
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....de9f4548016146cfb8c2c391678b75d5