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Dr. Hage reports research grant support from Astellas Pharma and GE Healthcare. Jeremy S. White and Ami E. Iskandrian have no conflict of interest.

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  1. Division of Cardiovascular Disease, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 306 Lyons Harrison Research Building, 1900 University BLVD, Birmingham, AL, 35294, USA

    Jeremy S. White MD, Ami E. Iskandrian MD, MASNC & Fadi G. Hage MD, MASNC

  2. Section of Cardiology, Birmingham Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Birmingham, AL, USA

    Jeremy S. White MD & Fadi G. Hage MD, MASNC

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White, J.S., Iskandrian, A.E. & Hage, F.G. Cases from a busy nuclear cardiology laboratory. J. Nucl. Cardiol. 26, 1139–1147 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12350-019-01793-x

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