Name: Prognostic Predictors and Outcomes in Patients with Abnormal Myocardial Perfusion Imaging and Angiographically Insignificant Coronary Artery Disease

Released: 10/30/2008

Description:

In this podcast episode, Dr. Kenneth Brown of the University of Vermont College of Medicine discusses a new study that explores outcomes in patients with abnormal stress myocardial perfusion imaging suggestive of ischemia but angiographically insignificant coronary artery disease. Often labeled as "false positives", these patients are still at risk for major cardiac events according to the study's authors.
Disclosure: Dr. Brown serves on the Advisory Board of GE Healthcare.

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