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A thallium stress test is a type of nuclear scanning test or myocardial perfusion imaging test. It shows how well blood flows to the heart muscle. The test is usually done along with an exercise stress test on a treadmill or bicycle. When a patient reaches his or her maximum level of exercise, a small amount of radioactive substance called thallium is injected into the bloodstream. It shows where the heart muscle is not getting a normal blood supply.
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What test measures the flow of blood through the heart during activity is evaluated by injecting thallium into the bloodstream?
Thallium Stress Test
What is a persantine thallium study?
It is a stress test where a medication (persantine) is given instead of having the person run on a treadmill and thallium is given to visualize the blood flow to the heart.
Should someone with atrial fibrillation have a exercise stress test or a thallium stress test?
If you are a patient currently in atrial fibrillation. Generally speaking an adenosine or lexiscan nuclear stress tests are usually the best options. The other medicated stress test is Dobutamine (both echocardiogram and Nuclear). You do not want to use Dobutamine on patients at risk to go into atrial fibrillation because it is a drug that can induce it. For patients that are in chronic atrial fibrillation dobutamine can be used but is not considered to be as diagnostic as a lexiscan or adenosine stress test. The reason being (and this goes or exercise stress tests as well) dobutamine is a heart rate dependent test. This means the closer the heart rate gets to the patients age predicted max HR the more accurate the test is at detecting heart disease. The assumption in this is that the patient is in a sinus rhythm. Myocardial oxygen demand correlates directly with patients HR when the patient is in sinus rhythm. If the patient is in atrial fibrillation that correlation with myocardial oxygen demand becomes much more cloudy thus reducing the sensitivity of an exercise or dobutamine stress test with patients in atrial fibrillation. Both lexiscan and adenosine eliminate HR demands in detecting CAD which makes them the best test for a.fib patients.
A compound used to test for the presence of ozone in the stratosphere contains 96.2 percent thallium and 3.77 percent oxygen What is its empirical formula?
Data:96.2% thallium.3.77% oxygen.The empirical formula is Tl2O.
How long does thallium stay in the body after a stress test?
In my case, the effects lasted for approximately 90 days. Although the actual "medicine" may have left my body, the effects of it stayed. My blood pressue was high, I was lathargic and had on and off feelings that I could have a heart attack at any moment. I also had feelings of depression. If you know your arteries are "clogged", there is no reason to have the stress test done. (my opinion only) Have an angiography. That way, they can possibly open the clog when its discovered. Be prepared though, they may have to do immediate "BY Pass surgery....
What stress test involves the use of radiopharmaceutical?
Thallium is the most common radiopharmaceutical used in nuclear medicine cardiac stress tests. Thallium shows how well blood travels through the heart in an active or stressful environment.
What test measures the flow of blood through the heart during activity is evaluated by injecting thallium into the bloodstream?
Thallium Stress Test
What is made of thallium?
there is a perfume and stress test and used for your eyes
What diagnostic procedure involves the use of a radiopharmaceutical?
thallium stress test
What care should a patient receive after a thallium heart scan?
The thallium scan is performed in conjunction with an exercise stress test. At the end of the stress test (once the patient has reached the highest level of exercise he or she can comfortably achieve), a small amount of the harmless radioisotope.
Which diagnostic procedure uses a radiopharmaceutical to assess the patient's heart function?
thallium test
What test's the flow of blood through the heart during activ ity is evaluated through the use of a radionuclide?
It's a thallium stress test which is aka exercise stress test
What is a persantine thallium study?
It is a stress test where a medication (persantine) is given instead of having the person run on a treadmill and thallium is given to visualize the blood flow to the heart.
How is thallium scanning performed?
usually done after an exercise stress test or after injection of a vasodilator, a drug to enlarge the blood vessels, like dipyridamole (Persantine). Thallium is injected, and the scan is done then and again four hours (and possibly 24 hours) later
Does Medicare pay for routine heart stress test?
Medicare will pay 80% as long as it is as an out-patient test.
Should someone with atrial fibrillation have a exercise stress test or a thallium stress test?
If you are a patient currently in atrial fibrillation. Generally speaking an adenosine or lexiscan nuclear stress tests are usually the best options. The other medicated stress test is Dobutamine (both echocardiogram and Nuclear). You do not want to use Dobutamine on patients at risk to go into atrial fibrillation because it is a drug that can induce it. For patients that are in chronic atrial fibrillation dobutamine can be used but is not considered to be as diagnostic as a lexiscan or adenosine stress test. The reason being (and this goes or exercise stress tests as well) dobutamine is a heart rate dependent test. This means the closer the heart rate gets to the patients age predicted max HR the more accurate the test is at detecting heart disease. The assumption in this is that the patient is in a sinus rhythm. Myocardial oxygen demand correlates directly with patients HR when the patient is in sinus rhythm. If the patient is in atrial fibrillation that correlation with myocardial oxygen demand becomes much more cloudy thus reducing the sensitivity of an exercise or dobutamine stress test with patients in atrial fibrillation. Both lexiscan and adenosine eliminate HR demands in detecting CAD which makes them the best test for a.fib patients.
What does a clinical correlation mean from a stress test?
A clinical correlation from a stress test involves interpreting the test results in conjunction with the patient's symptoms, medical history, and other diagnostic tests to arrive at a diagnosis or treatment plan. It helps the healthcare provider determine the significance of abnormal findings on the stress test in relation to the patient's overall health condition.
