In this procedure, the provider performs planar nuclear imaging of heart muscle after the injection of a radioactive substance that accumulates in the area of damaged myocardium. The test helps to identify and locate the damage a recent myocardial infarction might have caused. Myocardial infarction, or MI, is the irreversible damage of the myocardium or heart muscle due to ischemia caused by a blood clot.
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