Patient preparation for nuclear imaging: when should anti-ischemic medications be withheld?

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

1. The effect of beta-blockers on the diagnostic accuracy of vasodilator pharmacologic SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging.Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology
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2. ST-segment depression during vasodilator stress is of minor clinical importance in women with normal myocardial perfusion imaging and low or intermediate risk of coronary artery disease.European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging · 2012
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3. Feasibility and diagnostic power of transthoracic coronary Doppler for coronary flow velocity reserve in patients referred for myocardial perfusion imaging.Cardiovascular ultrasound · 2008
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Corrections and comments

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Authors and funding

2 authors.

Funding

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Abstract

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