AIM Using Coronary arteriogram as the gold standard, stress ECG (Treadmill Test - TMT) has a sensitivity of 68% and specificity (77%) for the detection of coronary artery disease (CAD). Stress myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) with Tc-99m Sestamibi gated SPECT has a sensitivity of 85% and specificity of 90%. The aim of the study was to ascertain if the combined use of the two physiologic tests...

BACKGROUND Acute rest single-photon emission computed tomography-myocardial perfusion imaging (SPECT-MPI) has high predictive value for acute coronary syndrome (ACS) in emergency department patients. Prior studies have shown excellent agreement between rest/stress computed tomography perfusion (CTP) and SPECT-MPI, but the value of resting CTP (rCTP) in acute chest pain triage remains unclear. W...

The sensitivity of myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) using thallium-201 injected both at rest and during peak exercise was compared to simultaneously recorded 12 lead electrocardiography (ECG) for the detection of transient ischemia in 20 normal subjects and 63 patients with coronary artery disease (CAD). No significant perfusion defects or ECG changes were seen on either the rest or exercise ...

In message passing programs, once a process terminates with an unexpected error, the terminated process can propagate the error to the rest of processes through communication dependencies, resulting in a program failure. Therefore, to locate faults, developers must identify the group of processes involved in the original error and faulty processes that activate faults. This paper presents a nov...

OBJECTIVE Anatomic coronary artery disease (CAD) can be determined by coronary angiography (CAG) in patients with normal stress single photon emission tomography (SPET) myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI). Coronary angiography results of patients with negative exercise MPI and the prognosis of these patients (CAG-diagnosed CAD vs. non-CAD) were investigated in the current study. SUBJECTS AND M...

Phase analysis has been validated to measure left ventricular (LV) dyssynchrony from resting gated SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI). In 1-day rest/stress protocols, often only post-stress gated data are acquired. The purpose of this study was to determine whether LV dyssynchrony parameters measured at post-stress significantly differ from those measured at rest. Sixty normal subjects, 4...

Despite recent advances in therapeutic and diagnostic approaches, coronary artery disease (CAD) and its related cardiac disorders represent the most common cause of death in the United States. Nuclear myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) technologies play a pivotal role in the diagnosis and treatment design for CAD. Recently, in order to develop improved MPI agents for diagnosis of CAD, (99m)Tc-[...

background & aim : primary dysmenorrhea (pd) is the most common genital disease among adults which can disrupt daily activities and reduce quality of life. acupressure was recommended for relief of pd and the aim of this study was to compare the maximum pain intensity (mpi) and duration of pd after acupressure on third liver (liv3) and placebo points. methods & materials : students who were suf...

UNLABELLED Rotenone derivatives have shown promise in myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI). CMICE-013 is a novel (123)I-labeled rotenone derivative developed for SPECT MPI. The objective of this study was to assess the image quality of CMICE-013 and compare its uptake with tetrofosmin, sestamibi, and (201)Tl in vivo in a porcine model of stress-induced myocardial ischemia. METHODS Microspheres ...

Background Changes in global and regional wall motion between rest and stress are important prognostic markers, uncommonly observed with vasodilator stress radionuclide myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI). Cardiac MRI (CMR) with tagging has the potential to more precisely quantify normal and abnormal ventricular wall motion responses. We herein report CMR findings in 5 very low-likelihood patien...