This screening test measures how well blood flows through your heart. It may be used to diagnose coronary artery disease or to assess damage caused by a heart attack. Share on Pinterest JazzIRT/Getty ...

Myocardial Perfusion Imaging Test (MIBI): shows how well blood flows through or perfuses your heart. It can show both the areas of the heart muscle that aren't getting enough blood flow and how well ...

Use of 3-D whole heart myocardial perfusion cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) accurately predicts the presence of ischemia-producing stenosis as measured by fractional flow reserve (FFR). The ...

Not every center schedules its rest and stress studies the same way; however, the test is always performed at rest and at stress to see how your heart and blood vessels are functioning. In the event ...

NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland — Stress myocardial perfusion imaging is not very helpful in evaluating syncope in patients without known heart disease, even those at high risk for it. These are the ...

Coronary artery disease is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Although it can present with an ...

For patients referred for evaluation of stable angina, a tiered protocol progressing from calcium scans to CT angiography (CTA) to CT myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) appears to be a viable ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . For patients with chest pain, there is no single imaging test that will provide the perfect diagnosis for all, ...

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