Nuclear medicine tracer techniques provide a safe and simple approach for cardiovascular screening and evaluating congenital heart disease and perfusion abnormalities.
May aid screening for congenital heart disease; leaves open need for prospective validation before practice change.
Useful in studies of plasma and red cell volumes, structure, and flow within the cardiovascular system, tracer techniques have a safety and relative simplicity that suggest their application also to large-scale screening. The methods now in use are described and detailed criteria given for the interpretation of nuclear findings in congenital heart disease and abnormalities of pulmonary and peripheral perfusion.
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Henry N. Wagner (1972) studied this question.
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