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What Does a Nuclear Heart Scan Show?
The results from a nuclear heart scan can help doctors:
- Diagnose heart conditions, such as coronary heart disease (CHD), and decide the best course of treatment.
- Manage certain heart diseases, such as CHD and heart failure, and predict short-term or long-term survival.
- Determine your risk for a heart attack.
- Decide whether other heart tests or procedures will help you. Examples of these tests and procedures include coronary angiography (an-jee-OG-rah-fee) and cardiac catheterization (KATH-eh-ter-ih-ZA-shun).
- Decide whether procedures that increase blood flow to the coronary arteries will help you. Examples of these procedures include angioplasty (AN-jee-oh-plas-tee) and coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG).
- Monitor procedures or surgeries that have been done, such as CABG or a heart transplant.
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Nuclear Heart Scan Clinical Trials
Clinical trials are research studies that explore whether a medical strategy, treatment, or device is safe and effective for humans. To find clinical trials that are currently underway for Nuclear Heart Scan, visit www.clinicaltrials.gov.
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