A 56-year-old member asked:
how is a persantine sestamibi stress test performed?
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Dr. Calvin Weisberger answered
50 years experience Cardiology
pharmacologic stress: Often we use other agents but Persantine is injected and the patient is either imaged soon after or after a little exercise, after the Persantine administration, sestamibi is injected to allow the imaging.
Answered on Oct 26, 2019
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