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Constrictive pericarditis causing a positive TI-201 SPECT stress test for myocardial ischemia
R J Matthews1, J Lightfoote, R S Grusd
1Diagnostic Imaging of Southern California Medical Group, Sherman Oaks.
Clinical Nuclear Medicine
|August 1, 1990
Abstract:
A case of constritive pericarditis was demonstrated by a positive thallium SPECT stress test for myocardial ischemia. After pericardiectomy, the repeat thallium stress test was normal. The disappearance of the criteria for a positive test suggests that constrictive pericarditis can cause myocardial ischemia, which can be demonstrated by thallium SPECT stress testing.