title: The role of pharmacological stress testing in women.
abstract: Pharmacological stress is an alternative method to dynamic exercise that combined with noninvasive imaging allows the detection of flow-limiting coronary artery disease (CAD). It represents the stress procedure of choice in patients who cannot exercise appropriately. In women, pharmacological stress combined with myocardial perfusion scintigraphy (MPS) has demonstrated to be highly accurate for the detection of obstructive CAD and a valuable tool that helps separate patients at low cardiac risk from those with an adverse prognosis. Pharmacological stress with positron emission tomographic (PET) imaging is increasingly used in the investigation of suspected obstructive CAD; available evidence shows that the diagnostic profile and prognostic value of stress PET imaging is similar to that of stress MPS in women.
authors: Nuclear Medicine Department, Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, Sydney Street, London, SW3 6NP, United Kingdom.
authors: Katherine
authors: K
authors: Standbridge
authors: Nuclear Medicine Department, Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, Sydney Street, London, SW3 6NP, United Kingdom. e.reyes@rbht.nhs.uk.
authors: Eliana
authors: E
authors: Reyes
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003324:Coronary Artery Disease / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D005080:Exercise Test / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007089:Image Enhancement / Q000379:methods*; D008875:Middle Aged; D017202:Myocardial Ischemia / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D055414:Myocardial Perfusion Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography / Q000379:methods*; D011379:Prognosis; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D014665:Vasodilator Agents; D016387:Women's Health; D055815:Young Adult
chemical_list: D014665:Vasodilator Agents
keywords: SPECT; coronary artery disease; pharmacologic stress; women