Advances in nuclear cardiology: Preoperative risk stratification

Summary  Preoperative stress MPI can be used in concert with clinical data to identify low-risk patients who can go on to undergo planned noncardiac surgery. It can also identify high-risk patients, providing an opportunity to ameliorate this risk. Studies suggest that medical and revascularization interventions can reduce the perioperative risk in patients identified as high risk by stress MPI and that early and late outcome is improved when such preoperative testing is used.