Pharmacological and other nonexercise alternatives to exercise testing to evaluate myocardial perfusion and left ventricular function with radionuclides

Journal Article · Mon Apr 01 00:00:00 EST 1991 · Seminars in Nuclear Medicine; (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S0001-2998(05)80047-9· OSTI ID:5190169

DePuey, E G; Rozanski, A ^[1]

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1. St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, New York, NY (USA)

Pharmacological vasodilatation with either dipyridamole or adenosine is a safe and accurate alternative to exercise testing to diagnose coronary artery disease with thallium 201 myocardial perfusion imaging. The technique also provides important prognostic information with regard to future cardiac events in patients undergoing diagnostic testing, in those evaluated preoperatively, and in those with recent myocardial infarctions. Multigated equilibrium and first-pass radionuclide ventriculography also are well suited to evaluate the effects of interventional procedures. Success has been achieved using this methodology in a variety of interventions including conventional exercise testing, pharmacological stress testing, atrial pacing, assessment of myocardial viability with nitroglycerin, mental stress testing, and ambulatory monitoring of left ventricular ejection fraction. 67 references.

• OSTI ID: 5190169
• Journal Information: Seminars in Nuclear Medicine; (United States), Vol. 21:2; ISSN 0001-2998
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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