Clinical Utility of Blood Flow Quantification (IMAGE)

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Clinical Utility of Blood Flow Quantification

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In this example, from an 81-year-old man with hypertension and dyslipidemia, relative MPI (A) with 82Rb PET demonstrated only mild, reversible perfusion abnormality involving distribution of left anterior descending coronary artery. However, MFR was severely reduced globally at 1.11. Nearly entire heart had severely reduced MFR except for inferior and inferolateral walls, where it was only moderately reduced. Coronary angiography (B) showed severe stenosis of mid portion of left main coronary artery.

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