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Heart Disease (Expert Forum)
Re: PET Scan
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Dear Cindy,
A PET scan may be done prior to surgery to determine if CABG will improve heart function. This is called a viability test. The Cleveland Clinic is one of the few centers in Northeastern Ohio that has a PET scanner. You can make an appointment by calling 1-800-CCF-CARE and ask to schedule an appointment in nuclear medicine.
I hope you find this information useful. Information provided in the heart forum is for general purposes only. Only your physician can provide specific diagnoses and therapies. Please feel free to write back with additional questions.
If you would like to make an appointment at the Cleveland Clinic Heart Center, please call 1-800-CCF-CARE or inquire online by using the Heart Center website at www.ccf.org/heartcenter. The Heart Center website contains a directory of the cardiology staff that can be used to select the physician best suited to address your cardiac problem.
So if a PET scan is done to test for heart function, if a person has very little healthy tissue, a CABAGE is not a good choice. What other options are there? Thanks
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