title: Long-Term Risk Assessment After the Performance of Stress Myocardial Perfusion Imaging.
abstract: Stress-rest myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) is a potent method for assessing the presence and magnitude of inducible myocardial ischemia. Stress MPI currently faces increased scrutiny for its therapeutic effectiveness because of the emergence of other competing means for assessing clinical risk. New data have examined the usefulness stress-rest-MPI as a predictor for long-term clinical outcomes, in contrast to its traditional role for assessing short-term cardiovascular risk. These data indicates that temporal risk is highly influenced by both the magnitude of ischemia and various baseline clinical factors. An optimized assessment of stress MPI, which includes long-term risk prediction, might improve the potential future clinical effectiveness of this imaging modality.
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Mt Sinai St. Lukes and Roosevelt Hospitals, 1111 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10025, USA. Electronic address: arozanski@chpnet.org.
authors.forename: Alan
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rozanski
authors.affiliation: Department of Imaging, Burns and Allen Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA; Department of Medicine, Burns and Allen Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, 8700 Beverly Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90048, USA.
authors.forename: Daniel S
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Berman
mesh_terms: D003324:Coronary Artery Disease / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D005080:Exercise Test; D006801:Humans; D064847:Multimodal Imaging; D055414:Myocardial Perfusion Imaging; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D018570:Risk Assessment; D013997:Time Factors; D015899:Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon
keywords: Coronary artery disease; Myocardial ischemia; Myocardial perfusion imaging; SPECT