Myocardial scintigraphy and clinical stratification as predictors of events in renal transplant candidates.
Conclusion: SPECT should be restricted to high-risk patients. Moreover, in contrast to SPECT, the AST algorithm was also useful for predicting death by any cause in RTCs and for selecting patients for invasive coronary testing.
PMID: 20349410 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Journal of Nephrology)