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Myocardial Perfusion Scintigraphy in the Assessment of Post-Revascularization – Current Status and Limitations

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Myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) is widely utilized in the non-invasive diagnosis and management of coronary artery disease (CAD). Radionuclide MPI has been well studied in the evaluation, risk stratification and identification of patients with CAD who will benefit from revascularization. Myocardial revascularization using percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI) and coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) has become a mainstay in the treatment of patients with CAD. The idea of performing a functional study after revascularization is to identify the areas that are not revascularized or to look for restenosis and progression of native vessel disease or disease in the grafts.

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  2. The Brody School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Section of Cardiology, East Carolina University, 28858-4354, Greenville, NC, USA

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Raza, J., Movahed, A. (2009). Myocardial Perfusion Scintigraphy in the Assessment of Post-Revascularization – Current Status and Limitations. In: Movahed, A., Gnanasegaran, G., Buscombe, J., Hall, M. (eds) Integrating Cardiology for Nuclear Medicine Physicians. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78674-0_24

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