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It takes approximately 30 minutes to one hour
The MUGA scan stands for Multiple Gated Acquisition Scan and is an extremely useful tool to assess the function of the heart. It's also noninvasive. The scan provides a moving image of the beating heart. From this image medical professionals can make conclusions about the health of the cardiac ventricles.
The pictures are taken via gamma camera driven by a computer program
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Well, my husband just had this today. He is going on 54 and is healthy and active. We were told by his cardiologist that his Er should be about 60%. [[User:24.154.41.209|24.154.41.209]] 00:44, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
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The MUGA scan is performed to determine if the heart's left and right ventricles are functioning properly and to diagnose abnormalities in the heart wall.
It takes approximately 30 minutes to one hour
A multiplegated acquisition (MUGA) scan is a variation of this test.
The MUGA scan stands for Multiple Gated Acquisition Scan and is an extremely useful tool to assess the function of the heart. It's also noninvasive. The scan provides a moving image of the beating heart. From this image medical professionals can make conclusions about the health of the cardiac ventricles.
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The patient may resume normal activities immediately following the test
The MUGA scan (MUltiple Gated Acquisition scan) is an extremely useful noninvasive tool for assessing the function of the heart. The MUGA scan produces a moving image of the beating heart, and from this image several important features can be determined about the health of the cardiac ventricles (the heart's major pumping chambers).How is the MUGA scan performed?A MUGA scan is performed by attaching a radioactive substance, Technetium 99, to red blood cells, then injecting the red blood cells into the patient's bloodstream. The patient is then placed under a special camera (a gamma camera), which is able to detect the low-level radiation being given off by the Technetium-labelled red cells. Since the red blood cells (including those that are radio-labelled) fill the cardiac chambers, the image produced by the gamma camera is essentially an outline of those chambers. With some fancy computer manipulation, the the final product is a movie of the heart beating.
The pictures are taken via gamma camera driven by a computer program
First you scan the pictures and save them onto a external memory drive or a jump drive. After this is done you can take the pictures out of the portable memory drive and transfer them onto your computer.
MUGA scans are used to calculate ejection fraction (an important measure of heart performance) and evaluate regional myocardial wall motion