Matters of the heart: FDG PET may hold answers for patients with heart failure
Saturday, April 3, 2010 - 23:07
in Health & Medicine
For a patient with heart failure, checking whether the heart could benefit from bypass surgery or a stent is critical to ensuring survival. One imaging technique, positron emission tomography (PET) with the imaging agent fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG), may provide doctors with the information they need to make more informed treatment decisions, according to new research.