CLINICAL OUTCOME OF PATIENTS EVALUATED WITH EMERGENCY CENTER MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION SPET FOR UNEXPLAINED CHEST PAIN

Authors
STEWART RE DICKINSON CZ WEISSMAN IA ONEILL WW DWORKIN HJ JUNI JE
Citation
Re. Stewart et al., CLINICAL OUTCOME OF PATIENTS EVALUATED WITH EMERGENCY CENTER MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION SPET FOR UNEXPLAINED CHEST PAIN, Nuclear medicine communications, 17(6), 1996, pp. 459-462
Citations number
11
Categorie Soggetti
Radiology,Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging
Journal title
Nuclear medicine communications → ACNP
ISSN journal
01433636
Volume
17
Issue
6
Year of publication
1996
Pages
459 - 462
Database
ISI
SICI code
0143-3636(1996)17:6<459:COOPEW>2.0.ZU;2-Y
Abstract
The clinical outcome of 68 patients with unexplained chest pain triage d with emergency centre (EC) SPET myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) w as assessed at 9 month follow-up. Based on clinical presentation and E C-MPI, 63% (43/68) of patients were discharged from the EC; 84% (36/43 ) of these patients reported no further symptoms at follow-up. There w ere no adverse clinical events in patients with totally normal EC-MPI.