Substantial Decrease in Use of Cardiac Imaging Procedure Found

March 27, 2014 - There has been a sharp decline since 2006 in the use of nuclear myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI); an imaging procedure used to determine areas of the heart with decreased blood flow), a decrease that cannot be explained by an increase in other imaging methods, according to a study in the March 26 issue of JAMA.
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