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What is a myocardial perfusion scan?
Myocardial perfusion is an imaging test. It's also called a nuclear stress test. It is done to show how well blood flows through the heart muscle. It also shows how well the heart muscle is pumping. For example, after a heart attack, your doctor may order this test to find areas of damaged heart muscle. This test may b...
A myocardial perfusion scan uses a tiny amount of a radioactive substance, called a radioactive tracer. The tracer travels through the bloodstream and healthy heart muscle absorbs it. On the scan, the areas where tracer has been absorbed look different from the areas that do not absorb it. Areas that are damaged or don...
Why might I need a resting myocardial perfusion scan?
There may be other reasons for your healthcare provider to order a resting myocardial perfusion scan.
What are the risks of a resting myocardial perfusion scan?
Except for the needle used to put in the IV, this test does not cause pain.
The injection of the radioactive tracer may cause some slight discomfort. Allergic reactions to the tracer are rare.
You may want to ask your healthcare provider about the amount of radiation used during the procedure and the risks related to your particular situation.
There may be other risks depending on your specific medical condition. Be sure your healthcare provider knows about all of your medical conditions.
Make a list of questions you have about the procedure. Be sure to discuss these questions and any concerns with your healthcare provider before the test. Bring a family member or friend to the appointment to help you remember your questions and concerns.
How do I get ready for a resting myocardial perfusion scan?
Your healthcare provider will explain the procedure to you and you can ask questions.
You will be asked to sign a consent form that gives your permission to do the test. Read the form carefully and ask questions if anything is not clear.
Tell your healthcare provider if you are allergic to or sensitive to medicines, local anesthesia, contrast dyes, iodine, tape, or latex.
You may need to fast (not eat or drink) before the procedure. Your healthcare provider will give you instructions as to how long to withhold food or liquids. Do not eat or drink anything that contains caffeine for at least 48 hours before the procedure. Also, avoid any prescription and over-the-counter medicines that c...
Tell your healthcare provider of all medicines (prescription and over-the-counter), vitamins, herbs, and supplements that you take.
If you are pregnant or think you may be, tell your healthcare provider. Radiation exposure during pregnancy may lead to birth defects.
If you are breastfeeding, tell your healthcare provider. Radioactive tracer can contaminate breast milk.
Tell your healthcare provider if you have a pacemaker or an implantable cardioverter defibrillator.
Based on your medical condition, your healthcare provider may request other specific preparation.
What happens during a resting myocardial perfusion scan?
You may have a resting myocardial perfusion scan on an outpatient basis or as part of your stay in a hospital. Procedures may vary depending on your condition and your healthcare providers practice.
You will be asked to remove any jewelry or other objects that may interfere with the procedure.
You will be asked to remove your clothing and will be given a gown to wear.
An intravenous (IV) line will be started in your hand or arm.
You will be connected to an ECG machine with leads that stick to your skin and a blood pressure cuff will be placed on your arm.
You will lie flat on a table in the procedure room.
The radioactive tracer will be injected into the IV in your hand or arm.
After the tracers has circulated through your body (10 to 60 minutes depending on the type of radioactive tracer being used), the scanner will take pictures of your heart. In this special kind of imaging test, called SPECT (single photon emission computed tomography), the scanner rotates around you as it takes pictures...
You will be lying flat on a table while the images of your heart are made. Your arms will be on a pillow above your head. You will need to lie very still while the images are being taken, as movement can affect the quality of the images.
If you have any symptoms, such as dizziness, chest pain, extreme shortness of breath, or severe fatigue, at any point during the procedure, let the healthcare provider know.
After the scan is done, the IV line will be removed, and you will be allowed to leave, unless your healthcare provider tells you differently.
What happens after a resting myocardial perfusion scan?
Move slowly when getting up from the scanner table to avoid any dizziness or lightheadedness from lying flat for the length of the procedure.
Drink plenty of fluids and empty your bladder often for 24 to 48 hours after the test. This helps flush the remaining radioactive tracer from your body.
The IV site will be checked for any signs of redness or swelling. If you notice any pain, redness, or swelling at the IV site after you return home, tell your healthcare provider. This may be a sign of infection or other type of reaction.
Your healthcare provider may give your other instructions after the procedure, depending on your particular situation. If the perfusion scan shows you may have a serious or life threatening cardiac disease, your healthcare provider may talk to you about a same-day cardiovascular procedure.
Eminem's 'Recovery' passes 1 million digital downloads in U.S.
Eminem’s “Recovery” this week has become the first album to sell 1 million digital downloads in the U.S., the rapper’s label, Interscope Records, announced Tuesday. That's about 25% of the collection's U.S. sales total, which is nearing 4-million copies since its release last year, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
The achievement comes just a week after Eminem returned to the No. 1 slot on the national sales chart with his collaboration with rapper Royce da 5’9”, “Bad Meets Evil,” giving Eminem his second No. 1 album within 12 months.
“Recovery” gave Eminem his sixth No. 1 album, and it yielded two Grammy Awards, for rap album and rap solo performance. He is making only a handful of concert appearances in 2011, most recently at the Bonnaroo Music Festival in Tennessee on June 11. Other tour dates are noted on his website.
The digital milestone for an album was reached 5 1/2 years after Gwen Stefani’s “Hollaback Girl” became the first single to pass the 1-million mark for paid digital downloads in 2005.
In April the National Association of Automotive Component and Allied Manufacturers (Naacam) released The South African Automotive Supplier Industry Benchmark Report 2018. An interesting finding was the increased interest in localisation from South African-based vehicle assemblers over the past year. The period reviewed...
This is exactly the kind of value chain stimulation Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies would have been hoping for when he mentioned earlier in 2018 that the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) was "more or less at the point where we will take a decision as to what the government programme will be. There will be ...
SUPPLIERS, IN TURN, NEED TO INCREASE THEIR LEVELS OF INVESTMENT AND SUB-LOCALISATION IN PREPARATION TO ACCEPT GREATER OPPORTUNITIES.
The DTI’s current flagship support programme for the sector, the Automotive Production and Development Programme, and its predecessor, the Motor Industry Development Programme, have done a great job at maintaining and growing a post-crisis vehicle assembly base to levels seen before the economic crash.
Recent expansions and new investment by all the domestic original equipment manufacturers, including the 2018-launched Isuzu investment in Port Elizabeth and the entry of assembly operations by BAIC and Mahindra, bears testament to this.
But vehicle assembly alone is not the golden egg of a state-supported automotive sector. That sits within the supply chain of locally manufactured materials, components and sub-assemblies. It’s known that economic benefits such as job creation, new business opportunities, currency risk mitigation, technology transfer a...
One can contextualise this by observing the disappointment of the South Korean government over the announcement earlier in 2018 by General Motors (GM) that it was closing its Gunsan plant. Not only does GM Korea employ nearly 16,000 workers, but it supports another 140,000 jobs in its supply chain. That alone explains ...
The SA Automotive Masterplan has other key underpinning objectives. Certain quarters of the industry have been sceptical about the objective of doubling direct employment in the sector by 2035. This certainly won’t happen in the assembly space given the trend towards higher plant automation levels. However, Naacam feel...
Over the period reviewed in the supplier benchmark report, the sample showed average employment levels (including permanent and contract employees) having increased by 8.7%. More importantly, it reflected workplace productivity gains of 9.8% over the same period. Commitment of local employees, as measured by the absent...
If early results are indicative, it appears SA can look forward to leveraging greater economic development gains post-2020 under an automotive policy framework that equally recognises the value of high-volume assembly plants with deeply localised supply chains creating quality jobs and business opportunities across all...
• Moothilal is Naacam executive director.
Half of all pregnancies in the U.S. are unplanned. Among unmarried women under 30 the proportion is close to three-quarters. Some of these pregnancies will be terminated, but many women go on to have children that they (and their partners) are not ready to parent. The result is high rates of poverty and less social mob...
There is a solution: it’s called long-acting reversible contraception (or LARC). LARC methods include the intrauterine device (IUD) and the implant.
The reason for such high rates of unplanned pregnancies is some combination of nonuse and inconsistent use of birth control. If a woman is sexually active for five years, her chance of getting pregnant is 63 percent with condoms, 38 percent with oral contraception, but less than 2 percent with a LARC. LARCs are more ef...
Three questions are often raised in connection with this issue. The first is: are these pregnancies really unplanned? Data collected by the National Survey of Family Growth, covering over 20,000 individuals and asking about the intentionality of a conception at the time a women first learned of her pregnancy, show that...
Although there is often some ambivalence about these pregnancies, if the data are to be believed, unplanned pregnancies are a widespread problem among the least advantaged. To be sure, some small-scale field work in very disadvantaged communities has suggested that babies are a source of pride and validation in low-inc...
A second question is whether LARCs are safe. Because of earlier very serious problems with the Dalkon Shield, many women and even some doctors doubt the safety of these devices. Yet the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and also the American Academy of Pediatricians have recently recommended them for ...
The third and related question is will women, especially teens or lower income women, choose a LARC if it is offered? We now have a body of evidence that they will. When patients are given a choice of contraceptive method and the effectiveness and safety of a LARC are carefully explained to them, we see high take-up ra...
Programs in St. Louis, in Colorado, and Iowa, and clinics around the country in a University of California San Francisco (UCSF) research study have all shown similar results. In the UCSF study, recently reported in the Lancet, clinics were randomly assigned to a treatment group where women received extra counselling an...
If we could reduce unplanned pregnancies, we would also reduce child poverty and improve social mobility. In my 2014 book, Generation Unbound, I estimate that the growth of single parent families, now driven almost entirely by unwed and unplanned childbearing, has led the child poverty rate to be 25 percent higher than...
In my view, these social programs are badly needed to help such families cope and to provide more opportunities for the less advantaged to climb the economic ladder. But this will take a commitment of resources that is not likely to be forthcoming in the near future. In the meantime, by building on the success of the e...
LARCs are a winner — for women, for children, and for taxpayers.
ITHACA, N.Y.(WENY)--Today, the Downtown Ithaca Alliance held their 21st annual Chili cook off on the Ithaca Commons. Over 35 vendors came out to the cook off to show off why their chili is the best. Over 45 chili were entered into the competition from all over the area. But, not only was there chili, but also beverages...
"Today we have about 35 different competitors with 45 different chilies and different beverages for people to sample. They are competing for several different prizes. We have a judges panel that will judge that will judge the best meat and vegetarian chili and the best beverage. And people get to vote for the peoples c...
The cook off started at 11:30 this morning and will be running until 4:00 p.m. this evening. Officials did say that the vendors will be serving until they run out, which may be before 4:00 p.m. So if you would like to attend, officials urge you to come sooner than later.
McCormick's at Moakley House, of Cornell Dining, won the Best Meat Chili category with a smoked duck, chorizo, and bourbon chili, topped with Crown Royal creme fraiche, crispy duck skin, and chives.
The Best Vegetarian/Vegan Chili title was claimed by Moosewood for their chipotle cherry chocolate chili. Best Beverage went to Wagner Valley Brewing Co. for their Fassen Bock Bourbon brew.
The reasoning behind the idea comes from several earlier discoveries by physicists, such as a 2006 paper by Shinsei Ryu and Tadashi Takayanagi showing a connection between entanglement and the geometry of spacetime. Building on that work, in 2013 Juan Maldacena and Leonard Susskind found that if two black holes became ...
To understand how entanglement might give rise to spacetime, physicists first must better understand how entanglement works. The phenomenon has seemed “spooky,” in the words of Albert Einstein, ever since he and collaborators predicted it in 1935. Lately scientists have been studying the various kinds of entanglement t...
The major goal of all this work is to finally achieve a theory that describes gravity from a quantum perspective. Yet physicists chasing this goal have been stymied for a century so far—Einstein himself pursued such a theory doggedly until his death, with no success. The It from Qubit scientists are banking on an idea ...
This principle suggests that some physical theories are equivalent to simpler theories that work in a lower-dimensional universe, in the same way that a 2-D postcard with a hologram of a unicorn on it can contain all the information necessary to describe and portray the 3-D shape of the unicorn. Because finding a worki...
AdS/CFT might allow physicists to discover a theory that is equivalent to quantum gravity, accomplishes all the same goals and can describe all the same physics, but that is much easier to work with—by leaving out gravity altogether. “Theories with gravity are very difficult to get quantum descriptions of whereas theor...
If physicists do eventually understand the how the AdS/CFT correspondence works—and come up with a lower-dimensional theory that stands in for quantum gravity—they are still not home free. The correspondence itself only works in a “toy model” of the universe that is somewhat simplified from the fully realized cosmos we...
Furthermore, even if the project does not pay off with a theory of quantum gravity, it is still likely to have beneficial offshoots. Bringing the techniques and ideas of string theory and general relativity to bear on questions of quantum information can, for instance, help to better define the different types of entan...
(CNN) -- The U.S. military is distributing pamphlets in eastern Afghanistan in an effort to find a soldier who has been missing for more than two weeks, the military said Thursday.
A soldier mans a weapon at the rear of a U.S. Army helicopter over Afghanistan in May.
The Taliban has claimed responsibility for kidnapping the soldier, who has not been identified, along with three Afghan soldiers. All went missing on June 30 in southeastern Afghanistan. The military believes the soldier may have been moved to various locations, including across the border into Pakistan, U.S. military ...
There are two versions of the pamphlets, which are in the Pashto language and were made available to CNN by U.S. Forces Afghanistan. One shows the image of an American soldier shaking hands in a group of kids with the message, "One of our American guests is missing. Return the guest to his home. Call us at ..." and lis...
The other shows a U.S. soldier kicking down a door, and then an outstretched hand with the superimposed image of a soldier, his head and arms drooping, and the words, "If you do not release the U.S. soldier then ... you will be hunted," Capt. Elizabeth Mathias, a U.S. military spokeswoman, said Thursday.
Soldiers have posted and handed out the pamphlets across Ghazni and Paktia provinces over the past 24 hours, Mathias said.
Days after the soldier went missing, a senior U.S. military official said, he and the three missing Afghan soldiers were captured by low-level militants and then quickly "sold" to the clan and network led by warlord Siraj Haqqani, who is believed to be deeply involved in the action.
The Haqqani clan operates on both sides of the Afghan-Pakistani border and is well known to the U.S. military.
The soldier apparently left his small outpost on his own on June 30 with no apparent means of defending himself, the official said.
Taliban commander Mulvi Sangeen said the U.S. soldier visited a military post in the Yousaf Khel district in Paktika province, got drunk, and was ambushed while returning to his car. Sangeen said the soldier was taken to a safe place. Paktika and Paktia provinces are adjacent.
CNN could not independently verify Sangeen's claims. A source with the U.S. military denied the claim that the soldier was drunk.
"The Taliban are known for lying, and what they are claiming [is] not true," the source said.
“I don’t take a back seat to anyone when it comes to progressive experience and progressive commitment,” Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonDavis: The shocking fact that Mueller never would have accused Trump of a crime Trump says he would challenge impeachment in Supreme Court The Hill's Morning Report - Will...
This statement was the most crucial declaration made during that two-hour forum.
It was more important than the discussion over emails — even though that issue will not go away, since putting national security at risk for personal gain is not an issue that can be dismissed via a friendly debate exchange.
It was more important than the question of who is tougher on guns. Sen. Bernie Sanders Bernard (Bernie) SandersDemocrats' CNN town halls exposed an extreme agenda Buttigieg says he doubts Sanders can win general election Meghan McCain: Bernie Sanders supporting prisoners being able to vote 'bats**t insane' MORE (I-Vt.)...
It was more important even than the issue that Hillary is so fond of pointing out: That she is a woman and we have never had a woman as president. Both those facts seem rather obvious.
The “progressive” quote and its implications set the parameters for the next presidential election.
Folks who want to define themselves as being further to the left than orthodox liberals now use the term “progressive.” If this were Denmark, they would be calling themselves socialist. But only Bernie has the courage and integrity to do that, so they refer to themselves as progressives.
Progressives — and Hillary specifically — very much aim to carry forward the ethos and legacy of President Obama. His aims are theirs. The only difference of any consequence, as Hillary said in the debate, is that the progressives want to go further.
This presidency has built itself around a few core elements of the progressive cause.
One such element involves developing a culture where class identity, and the envy it inherently infuses, is the driver of policy.

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