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Can a nuclear stress test tell you if you have heart failure?
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Heart failure: If you're alluding to diagnosing congestive heart failure, nuclear stress testing is not the test of choice but does give a sense of how the heart muscle is working. Better testing would be from taking a history, performing a physical examination, taking a chest xray, checking the blood test called BNP and performing an echocardiogram.
Answered 6/11/2019
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