title: Women's health issues and nuclear medicine, Part I: Women and heart disease.
abstract: This is the first article of a four-part series on women's health issues and nuclear medicine. This article will review women and heart disease. After reading this article the technologist will be able to: (a) compare and contrast the differences in diagnosing coronary artery disease between men and women; (b) explain the importance of radionuclide myocardial perfusion imaging in diagnosing and stratifying risk of coronary artery disease in women; and (c) list and explain the technical challenges of imaging women's hearts.
authors.affiliation: Nuclear Cardiology Laboratory, Hartford Hospital, Connecticut.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mann
mesh_terms: D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D015637:Gated Blood-Pool Imaging; D006321:Heart / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015899:Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon; D016387:Women's Health