[J Nucl Cardiol] This study found using a multivariate analysis that myocardial perfusion scanning was the strongest independent predictor of future cardiac events in patients with a previous myocardial infarction.

Department of Cardiology, Thoraxcenter, Rotterdam, The Netherlands;
Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands;
Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Cardiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Neb, USA;
Supported in part by a publication grant from GE Health Care, Princeton, NJ.

*Reprint requests: Abdou Elhendy, MD, PhD, 982265 Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE 68198-2265

Email address: Aelhendy@unmc.edu (Abdou Elhendy)

Submitted May 22, 2004.
Accepted August 18, 2004.
Copyright © 2004 by American Society of Nuclear Cardiology
doi: 10.1016/j.nuclcard.2004.08.006

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J Nucl Cardiol. 2004 Nov-Dec;11(6):704-9.

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