What are the benefits and risks of myocardial perfusion scanning?
The benefits of myocardial perfusion imaging is tremendous. Basically it’s a very time tested procedure for corneal artery disease in patients. That’s the major benefit for us, to establish which patients who are presenting with chest discomfort actually have cardiac origin disease, as opposed to other causes of chest discomfort. The risks of myocardia perfusion scanning are basically similar to what we discuss with general local medicine. They are very small in relation to the radioactivity which is administered to the patient. So the benefit to risk ratio is huge.
