SPECT scans identify high-risk heart failure patients
Japanese investigators at Osaka University analyzed data from heart failure patients who underwent iodine-123 metaiodobenzylguanidine (I-123 MIBG) SPECT scans. They found patients with higher levels of blood-flow defects on SPECT scans were significantly more at risk of dying from cardiac events than those with low levels. SPECT scans identify high-risk heart failure patients https://www.auntminnie.com/index.aspx?sec=sup&sub=mol&pag=dis&ItemID=133789
SPECT can predict how long patients with epilepsy will live free of seizures after brain surgery.
German researchers recently published a study in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine, demonstrating that SPECT imaging prior to temporal lobe epilepsy surgery to remove seizure causing area can predict whether the patient will be free of seizures post-surgery. SPECT predicts outcomes in brain surgery for epilepsy (auntminnie.com)