Is myocardial tomoscintigraphy still a reference technique for patients with coronary insufficiency?.
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Date publication
avril 2012
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Membres identifiés du Cancéropôle Est :
Pr KARCHER Gilles
Tous les auteurs :
Marie PY, Djaballah W, Karcher G
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Résumé
Reliable information on both perfusion and contractility of the left ventricle may now be provided by other imaging techniques than myocardial perfusion tomoscintigraphy (MPS): echography, computed tomography and especially MRI. However, it is likely that MPS will still remain a reference technique in the evaluation of patients with coronary insufficiency. MTS has indeed not only the particularity of providing precise information on the repartition of myocardial perfusion, but also the particularities of: being relatively simple to realize and to analyze, allowing myocardial perfusion to be analyzed during physical exercise, in conditions that may be extrapolated to a stress occurring during daily life, providing a great variety of tracers and stress techniques and thus, allowing this technique to be adapted to each patient and to each indication (initial diagnostic, assessment under treatment, viability assessment ...). The new semiconductor cameras have provided a major technological progress and the consequences of which are still unknown. This progress could be amplified by the development of new tracers for cardiologic molecular imaging. (C) 2012 Published by Elsevier Masson SAS.
Référence
. 2012 Apr;36(4):222-7.