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What Does a Nuclear Heart Scan Show?
The results from a nuclear heart scan can help doctors:
Diagnose heart conditions, such as
coronary artery disease
(CAD), and decide on a course of treatment
Manage certain heart diseases, such as CAD and
heart failure
, and predict short-term or long-term survival
Determine your risk for a
heart attack
Decide whether you will be helped by other heart tests, such as
coronary angiography
or
cardiac catheterization
Decide whether procedures that can increase blood flow to the coronary arteries, such as
angioplasty
or
coronary artery bypass grafting
(CABG), can help you
Monitor procedures or surgeries that have been done, such as CABG or a
heart transplant
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