Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on myocardial perfusion imaging for ischemic heart disease.
Carmela NappiRosario MegnaWanda AcampaRoberta AssanteEmilia ZampellaValeria GaudieriTeresa MannarinoRoberta GreenValeria CantoniMario PetrettaAlberto CuocoloPublished in: European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging (2020)
The number of stress SPECT-MPI studies was significantly reduced during the COVID-19 pandemic compared with the corresponding months of the previous 3 years. The lack of difference in the prevalence of abnormal SPECT-MPI studies between the two study periods strongly suggests that many patients with potentially abnormal imaging test have been missed during the pandemic.