The year in cardiac imaging
Raymond J. Gibbons, MD* and
Philip A. Araoz, MD
Division of Cardiovascular Diseases and Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, and Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic and Mayo Foundation, Rochester, Minnesota

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Figure 1 Survival free of myocardial infarction in patients with normal adenosine stress single-photon emission computerized tomography scans and either negative or positive electrocardiographic (ECG) changes (11).
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Figure 2 Prevalence of abnormal single-photon emission computerized tomography studies in 1,738 asymptomatic diabetics, 2,998 symptomatic diabetics, 6,215 asymptomatic non-diabetics, and 16,214 symptomatic non-diabetics (36).
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Figure 3 Prevalence of high-risk single-photon emission computerized tomography studies (based on summed stress score) in the same groups shown in Figure 2 (36).
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