Thallium stress test heart muscle
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A Thallium Stress test looks at the blood flow to your heart muscle at rest and during stress. During a stress test, a radioactive material called Thallium is injected into a vein. A gamma camera takes pictures of the Thallium in your heart. the EKG and Echo were at rest and they are Fine !
now A Thallium Stress test just to see how your heart Managing the blood during stress.
thallium stress test Report.. Please Tell me the conclusion of Report ? do I need angiography ?
Dipyridamole myoview spect myocardial perfusion study
Age / Sex : 65/M
Indication: HTN, DM, ? IHD
Isotope : 7mCi of Tc-99m Myoview at peak stress
21mCi of Tc-99m Myoview at rest
Persantin Infusion Stress: Pharmacological Intervention was performed with injection persantin (Dipyridamole) at a rate of 0.142 mg/kg/min, 07 Mci of Tc-99m Myoview was given I/V. His resting ECG showed 0.
Stunned heart muscle does not recover as rapidly as hibernating heart muscle. But in contrast with infarcted heart muscle, in which many muscle cells are dead, it does indeed recover. Function in the stunned heart muscle may not return for 10 to 16 days after the restoration of blood flow.
To answer your question of how long depends on whether the heart cells are stunned, hibernating or necrotic...or combination of the 3 variables.
since 2 years he has been experiencing BREATHLESSSNESS,at certain times.His THALLIUM STRESS TEST was done to rule out any heart problems,like blocks etc.The test results were good,with EF at 65 or so.but he still has the problem.We are confused what is causing the breathlessness.Some doctors say,thallium stress test is good enough,and we need not go for angiograpjy.We are confused what we should do.pls advise.
This means that a portion of your heart showed a diminished area of blood flow during the stress part of your test. Was your stress test a Thallium of Myoview stress test? These are much more accurate in detecting heart disease than a normal stress test.
If the area has a diminished blood flow with no cell damage it means you most likely have not suffered a heart attack and the area can be opened with a stent, a very common procedure these days.
I had a thallium stress test a week ago. Now I'm setting off radioactive alarms at the facility where I work which is a heavily secure building. How long will the thallium remain in my body?
The thallium scan helps determine if areas of the heart do not receive enough blood. The exercise thallium scan is especially useful in diagnosing coronary artery disease, the presence of blockages in the coronary arteries (the vessels that supply oxygen-rich blood to the heart muscle).
Yes, it would be appropriate to take a stress test to determine if there are any vessel occlusions that may be blocking a good and adequate blood supply to the heart cells.
I recently had a Thallium stress test which came back positive. The sets of images were taken by two different techs while I sat upright in a chair. Not wanting to believe the worst, I went to another Cardiologist. There I had the Cardiolite test, images taken by the same tech while I lay on a table. Those results came back negative. So who is right?
Would having a calcium-score CT and perhaps a carotid ultrasound be the tie-breaker?
I am 55 years old, post menopausal.
Pointman,
I had a thallium stress test last week and there was no blood testing that preceded the test to determine if I was able to take it.
If we're talking about the same test, they put an IV in you, inject you with thallium, put you under a gamma camera so they can take pictures of your heart at rest. Then you go to the treadmill where they get you up to a defined heart rate, inject you with more thallium, and it's back under the camera.
Respected Sir, I had conducted a stress thalliun test in Feb 2008 i was feeling some continueously light chest pain and irritaion and i had also the problem of gas trouble or Acidity first i conducted the endoscopy that was normal and then to ruled out ethe ischemic events i did stress thallium test that was also normal and the blood perfusion was normal to heart muscle and was written in report that in future the risk of Ischemic events is very low.
I have uncontrolled hypertension and began having nagging ache in my left arm, and occasional pain in my upper back, and ocaasional discomfort in my chest...so I had a thallium stress test...during the period in the test when they sent me home for a couple of hours and told me to return later, I had severe pain in both arms, was nauseated, and slept until time to go back...i told them about it, but they were not concerned...when i got the reults of the test, it wa normal...
It is impossible to determine without the benefit of reviewing the stress test what the cause of the EKG changes were. Did his heart respond appropriately to the exercise stress by increasing.
Either way given the strong family history-I think he is headed down the road to cardiac cath. Before though, you should sit down with his cardiologist to have a thorough discussion of the stress test findings and the need for cardiac cath This may put your mind to rest with the next step.
Every medical test has false negatives because neither humans nor machines operate with 100% accuracy. However you are in very serious jeopardy whenever you receive a false negative result on a Cardiolite stress tests. That's because of an astonishing fact about cardiologists in the U.
1) Appropriateness of a Thallium test for a 80 year old. Secondly , if it shows heart muscles are in good condition and an angioplast is needed on the artery ( right coronary artery had 99% mid segment blockage) , we any way need to go ahead with the agiography and angioplast . So why expose him to both , the radiation from the thallium nuclear imaging test and the effects of the angiography dye ?
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