The annual incidence of cardiac sarcoidosis is low, but increased awareness of this inflammatory condition has led to earlier ...

Heart palpitations are heartbeats that suddenly become more noticeable. Palpitations can feel like the heart skips a beat, or it is pounding, fluttering, or beating irregularly. A person may ...

Diastolic heart failure causes a stiff left ventricle that prevents the heart from relaxing between beats. Common symptoms include coughing, tiredness, and shortness of breath. Systolic and ...

radionuclide imaging of the heart acquires information about myocardial perfusion and ventricular blood-pool dynamics for the evaluation of coronary artery disease and myocardial function. SPECT has ...

While it’s well-known that issues like high blood pressure, diabetes, smoking and not enough exercise are risk factors for a heart attack, many people may not know the early signs to tell if a cardiac ...

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And they are young boys. They're not men.'' The father-of-two continued: ''It really hurt my heart for many different reasons, but predominantly as a father, but also like, where are we in society ...

While preventive measures like lifestyle modifications play a critical role, nuclear medicine procedures such as SPECT imaging are crucial in early detection, reducing fatalities related to heart ...

Since the donation of a SPECT camera by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), a busy hospital in Brazil's city of Niteroi has doubled its capacity to perform heart scans, expanding access to ...