During a nuclear stress test, you’ll be injected with a radioactive dye called a tracer. Some of this tracer will remain in your system for a time after the test. A nuclear stress test is a type of ...

A stress test does not give the total picture of the cardiac blood vessels. As such, the risk of heart attack remains, shares ...

A nuclear stress test shows how well blood travels through your heart at rest and exertion. Doctors often use it to check for coronary artery disease (CAD). Research suggests nuclear stress testing ...

You can’t blame Jack Merendino for being nervous when he stepped on the treadmill for an exercise stress test last year. Just a few months earlier his younger brother had major heart surgery, both his ...

One of the strongest predictors of long-term mortality among patients undergoing a cardiac stress test is the need for a pharmacologic versus treadmill test, new data show. Moreover, although the risk ...