Updates on Stress Imaging Testing and Myocardial Viability With Advanced Imaging Modalities

Overview

Journal Curr Treat Options Cardiovasc Med

Specialty Cardiology & Vascular Diseases

Date 2017 Mar 20

PMID 28316034

Citations 4

Authors

Sandeep S Hedgire

Michael Osborne

Daniel J Verdini

Brian B Ghoshhajra

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Abstract

Non-invasive stress testing plays a key role in diagnosis and risk stratification in patients with coronary artery disease. Technical advances in CT, MRI, and PET have lead to increased utility of these modalities in myocardial perfusion imaging. The aim of the review is to provide a succinct update on CT, PET, and MRI for myocardial stress perfusion imaging.

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