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RT @venkmurthy: Do you worry that some of your vasodilator stress patients may have false negative stress testing due to occult caffeine us…
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Do you worry that some of your vasodilator stress patients may have false negative stress testing due to occult caffeine use? This is one approach to detecting inadequate vasodilation by examining splenic tracer uptake. https://t.co/6wibxDaafD
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@VLSorrellImages Group from Ottawa has recently been advocating looking at splenic perfusion as a positive control. Keep in mind though that some people will have a drop in cardiac outpt due to extensive ischemia. They might not have a positive splenic res