Detecting Myocardial Ischemia With 99mTechnetium-Tetrofosmin Myocardial Perfusion Imaging in Ischemic Stroke.

Sotirios GiannopoulosSofia MarkoulaChrissa SiokaSofia ZouroudiMaria SpiliotopoulouKaterina K NakaLampros K MichalisAndreas FotopoulosAthanassios P Kyritsis

Published in: The Neurohospitalist (2017)

The study suggested that more than half of patients with stroke without a history of cardiac disease have MIS. Although most of them have mild MIS, we suggest a thorough cardiological evaluation in this group of patients for future prevention of severe myocardial outcome.

Keyphrases

left ventricular
end stage renal disease
atrial fibrillation
ejection fraction
chronic kidney disease
newly diagnosed
high resolution
prognostic factors
early onset
heart failure
patient reported