A challenge to the nuclear cardiology laboratory: Imaging goals in patients after infarction

✍ Scribed by Thomas P. Rocco; Marc A. Pfeffer

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 733 KB
• Volume: 3
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1071-3581
• DOI: 10.1016/s1071-3581(96)90098-7

✦ Synopsis

A challenge to the nuclear cardiology laboratory: Imaging goals in patients after infarction

The nuclear cardiology laboratory has played a prominent role in the assessment of patients in both the acute and convalescent phase after myocardial infarction. However, advances in other modes of assessment, as well as changes in clinical practice, warrant reexamination of imaging practice in the current "interventional" era of cardiovascular medicine. The term interventional is meant to be inclusive of therapies that limit the extent of initial myocardial injury, and postinfarction therapies designed to detect and treat recurrent ischemia and/or attenuate unfavorable alterations in ventricular structure and function that are the sequelae of the initial myocardial injury.