Tilkemeier et al. concluded from a retrospective study that patients treated with thrombolytic
therapy cannot be risk-stratifiedon the basis of 201'flperf1@ sionstudies (12). Increased lung …

MATERIALS AND METHODS Patient selection. Patients were selected from those referred
to the Section of Cardiology for coronary cineangiography because of periodic chest pain …

The use of physiologic testing for prognostication continues to be useful and widely applied
in the predischarge evaluation of patients recovering from an uncomplicated acute …

Pharmacological stress is vital to the modern nuclear cardiological laboratory. In clinical
practice only adenosine, dipyridamole and dobutamine are used. Both adenosine (directly) …

Pharmacologic Stress Testing with MyocardialPerfusion Imaging | Journal of Nuclear Medicine
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The prognostic value of exercise and pharmacologic stress myocardial perfusion imaging
has been established in thousands of patients evaluated in multiple clinical studies (1–5) …

Pharmacologic stress testing with myocardial perfusion imaging has enabled patients who
cannot complete adequate exercise to undergo diagnostic and prognostic evaluation for …

An increasing proportion of patients are unable to perform maximum exercise or for whom
exercise is contraindicated (Table 8-1). Fortunately, pharmacologic stress testing provides …

In this issue of the Journal, Yao et al report on the prognostic value of adenosine
triphosphate (ATP) myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) with Technetium-99 sestamibi (Tc …

For myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI), the best test to evaluate hemodynamic changes
during stress is an exercise treadmill test. It provides independent prognostic value …