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What is a small size, mild severity, fixed anterseptal wall perfusion defect?

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Dr. Marcus Romanello answered

Prior heart attack: This represents either evidence of a prior heart attack or an area of the heart receiving very poor blood flow from a blocked artery.

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Answered 8/22/2020

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Recent stress test results says; Image quality is poor but there is medium size, moderate partially reversible perfusion defect of the inferior wall What does this mean?

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What does Myocardial Perfusion deficits: Small sized, mild fixed inferior deficit consistent both with attenuation and ischemia, mean?

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Stress test reads There is a mildly reduced perfusion defect of moderate size in the inferior wall and The defect in the inferior segment is reversible. I am female &72. I have FH and unable to tolerate statins. How serious is this & what next?

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What does this mean from a stress test? Small sized, mildly reduced, fixed, apical perfusion defect consistent with artifact.

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Results from a Nuclear Stress Test: Abnormal perfusion study with severe partly reversible distal septal and apical defect, small in size.

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