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GE Healthcare Launches New Cardiac PET tracer

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ii to show blood flow through the heart muscle and evaluate the presence, extent and degree of myocardial ischemia or infarction. Around 6 million MPI procedures are undertaken each year in theU.S. Flyrcado is now available in selectU.S.markets.

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"A patient just arrived as a transfer for NSTEMI."

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

I quickly reviewed the patient’s records and saw that she was a 53 year old woman with a history of BMI 40, but no other identifiable risk factors for coronary artery disease. This proves effective treatment of the recurrent ischemia. The patient had no further symptoms of ischemia. Here was her final EKG prior to discharge.

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A man in his 40s with 3 days of stuttering chest pain

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Written by Willy Frick A man in his early 40s with BMI 36, hypertension, and a 30 pack-year smoking history presented with three days of chest pain. and morphine 4 mg IV ( Smith : this is even more worthless, and just hides the fact that the patient is having ongoing ischemia and infarction) , and repeat ECG was obtained.