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Nuclear Stress Test - Articles
Beware the "false positive" stress test
by
Dr. William D.
Posted
Tue 26 Aug 2008 4:17pm
There's a widely-known (among cardiologists) problem with nuclear stress tests. It's called the "false positive." (Nuclear stress tests are known as stress Cardiolites, stress thalliums, stress Myoviews, persantine stress tests, adenosine stress tests)
Stress tests, nuclear and otherwise, are helpful for identifying areas of poor blood flow
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Heart disease "reversal" by stress test
by
Dr. William D.
Posted
Fri 12 Sep 2008 8:52am
Here's an interesting example of a 71-year old man who achieved "reversal" of an abnormality by a nuclear stress test.
This man underwent bypass surgery around 10 years ago, two stents three years ago. A nuclear stress test in April, 2005 showed an area of poor blood flow in the front of the heart. On the images, normal blood flow is shown
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More on Treadmill Stress Tests...
by
DiseaseProof
Posted
Thu 31 Jul 2008 6:16am
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. Miller, a cardiologist and co-director of theMayo Clinic’s Nuclear Cardiology Laboratoryin Rochester, Minn., aboutthe shortcomings of stress tests. Take a look:
Mr. Russert... advantages are its rapidity and low cost — one-fifth to one-quarter the cost of more definitive and often more time-consuming tests like a nuclear stress test, CT coronary angiogram
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Non-Stress Tests are causing me STRESS!!!
by
Helene
Posted
Wed 14 Jan 2009 8:56pm
Why do they call them Non-stress Tests?? I find that they do nothing but cause me more stress. Today's NST lasted 90 minutes long...yes, 90 minutes long! Let me start off... what I had planned! She took my BP after the NST and it had gone down a little but not too much....no shocker there considering how stressful the "non-stress" test was. Overall
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My stress test was normal. I don't need a heart scan!
by
Dr. William D.
Posted
Wed 01 Oct 2008 8:26pm
remain normal. Just ask former President, Bill Clinton, how much he should have relied on stress tests. (Mr. Clinton underwent annual stress nuclear tests. All were normal and he...
Katy had undergone a stress test while being seen in an emergency room, where she'd gone one weekend because of a dull pain on the right side of her chest. After her stress
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Death of a concept called “Pre-discharge” stress test in STEMI !
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Dr. Sangareddi V.
Posted
Tue 15 Nov 2011 10:38am
a sub- maximal symptom limited EST and then discharge.
Advised to come back after 2 months for a stress test or Perfusion imaging
Continue with intensive medical... , this is a logical debate , logics has a rare place in medicine . It is ironical , stress test is rarely done even after 6months following pPCI in most centers.
Final message
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