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New type of cardiac stress test available at Springfield hospital
This month, Mercy Springfield introduced a new machine that combines the chemical portion of a stress test with a CT scan. The Cardiac PET-CT scan allows doctors to get a more accurate reading of ...
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Can’t Exercise for a Cardiac Stress Test? That’s a Bad Sign
Renee Bullock-Palmer Commenting for TCTMD, Renee Bullock-Palmer, MD (Deborah Heart and Lung Center ... She noted that when patients require a pharmacologic stress test, it’s appropriate to use PET ...
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Bracco Brings Cardiac PET Imaging to More Providers
Bracco believes all patients, regardless of where they live, should have access to the diagnostic power of cardiac PET imaging. The test can be ... rest or pharmacologic stress conditions to ...
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Your stress levels also affect your dog, heart rate study shows
A couple of years ago, researchers in France showed that how a dog owner behaves at the vet affects their pet's stress ... the effect of owner stress, measured through heart rate changes, on ...
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Patient's ability to perform a cardiac stress test offers a critical window on their mortality risk
The team analyzed and followed for nearly seven years 15,562 patients who were given SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging, a test that assesses blood flow to the heart during both stress and rest to ...
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The case for investing in cardiac PET imaging, even during a pandemic
Kim McDaniel, Senior Director Sales and Marketing at Bracco Diagnostics, outlines the benefits of investing in cardiac PET and how her company is helping to improve access to this important test.
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Patients in the US undergo first doses of GE HealthCare’s new PET radiotracer, Flyrcado (flurpiridaz F 18) injection
Additionally, it offers clinicians the flexibility to perform exercise stress testing—something not feasible with any previously available cardiac PET tracer. We anticipate Flyrcado will make ...