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Does routine preoperative stress-thallium scanning reduce postoperative cardiac complications and mortality in patients undergoing aortic reconstruction?
Does routine preoperative stress-thallium scanning reduce postoperative cardiac complications and mortality in patients undergoing aortic reconstruction?
Routine preoperative stress-thallium scanning before aortic reconstruction increases rates of coronary angiography and revascularization but does not reduce operative or long-term cardiac mortality.
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Routine stress-thallium scanning was associated with more angiography and revascularization but similar cardiac outcomes; leaves open its value before aortic reconstruction and requires randomized trials.
Seeger et al. (1994) studied this question.
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