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  2. Myocardial perfusion imaging - Wikipedia

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    Myocardial perfusion imaging or scanning (also referred to as MPI or MPS) is a nuclear medicine procedure that illustrates the function of the heart muscle (). [1]It evaluates many heart conditions, such as coronary artery disease (CAD), [2] hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and heart wall motion abnormalities.

  3. Radionuclide angiography - Wikipedia

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    As the gamma camera images are acquired, the patient's heart beat is used to 'gate' the acquisition. The final result is a series of images of the heart (usually sixteen), one at each stage of the cardiac cycle. [citation needed] Depending on the objectives of the test, the doctor may decide to perform either a resting or a stress MUGA.

  4. Gated SPECT - Wikipedia

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    Gated SPECT is a nuclear medicine imaging technique, typically for the heart in myocardial perfusion imagery. [1] An electrocardiogram (ECG) guides the image acquisition, and the resulting set of single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) images shows the heart as it contracts over the interval from one R wave to the next.

  5. Cardiac stress test - Wikipedia

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    The nuclear stress test exhibits a sensitivity of 81% and a specificity ranging from 85 to 95%. [22] To arrive at the patient's post test likelihood of disease, the interpretation of the stress test result necessitates the integration of the patient's pretest likelihood with the test's sensitivity and specificity.

  6. Cardiology diagnostic tests and procedures - Wikipedia

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    With a maximal stress test the level of exercise is increased until the person's heart rate will not increase any higher, despite increased exercise. A fairly accurate estimate of the target heart rate, based on extensive clinical research, can be estimated by the formula 220 beats per minute minus patient's age.

  7. Defence secretary to seek 'missing' nuclear test records - AOL

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    Nuclear bomb test veterans relaunch legal action Survivors in their 80s say many of them and their children have suffered cancers, genetic defects and other illnesses that must be linked to ...

  8. Simple blood test could predict a person’s heart disease risk ...

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    About 13% — roughly 3,600 participants — had either a heart attack or stroke, had surgery to fix a narrowed or blocked artery, or died from heart disease over the 30-year follow-up period.

  9. Cardiac imaging - Wikipedia

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    A physician may recommend cardiac imaging to support a diagnosis of a heart condition. Medical specialty professional organizations discourage the use of routine cardiac imaging during pre-operative assessment for patients about to undergo low or mid-risk non-cardiac surgery because the procedure carries risks and is unlikely to result in the change of a patient's management. [1]