Published in Telemedicine Week, January 22nd, 2008
"We examined the role of visually assessed regional wall motion in risk stratification for future cardiac events. A prospectively gathered database of 10,336 patients who underwent technetium (Tc)-99m sestamibi-gated single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) was analyzed. The summed stress score (SSS) and summed wall-motion score (SWMS) were calculated using a standard 17-segment model. The post-stress EF was generated using QGS software. The...
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Source: Telemedicine Week (2008-01-22)
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