Cost-saving approach to normal technetium-99m sestamibi myocardial perfusion scan.
We conducted a 1-year follow-up of 116 patients with normal poststress technetium-99m sestamibi without images at rest. Although 2 patients with proven coronary artery disease needed cardiac intervention, no patient suffered cardiac mortality or myocardial infarction, suggesting that early interpretation of normal poststress images without images at rest may imply an excellent prognosis for at least 1 year.
Milwaukee Heart Institute, Wisconsin 53233, USA.
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D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000191:economics*; D017046:Cost Savings; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals / Q000191:economics*; D017256:Technetium Tc 99m Sestamibi / Q000191:economics*; D015899:Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon / Q000191:economics* / Q000379:methods
D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D017256:Technetium Tc 99m Sestamibi