Patient Preparation

 

1    Fasting condition ideally.

2    Withdraw cardiovascular medications if requested by attending physician. In particular betablockers in case of exercise procedure. Allow 5 plasma half lives to pass on each of them.

References:

Groch MW, Cardiac Function: Gated Cardiac Blood Pool and First Pass Imaging in Henkin RE et al. Nuclear Medicine. Mosby St Louis 1996, p 626-643.

 

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