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New Imaging Technique Better PredictsSecond Heart Attack

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DALLAS, Nov. 17 -- An imaging technique employing single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) can predict the risk of a second heart attack or death among coronary patients better and sooner than the widely used exercise stress test, asserts a report in the American Heart Association's journal Circulation. According to lead author Kenneth A. Brown, director of the University of Vermont's nuclear cardiology and cardiac stress laboratories, the technique -- known as vasodilator perfusion imaging -- can be used as early as two to four days after a heart attack with no complications,...Read full article

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