Mexico-city does not look like Beverly-Hills: A multimodality and cardiac imager perspective!

Partnership for the goals to reduce CVD mortality: Rowing in the same direction

“…Availability of multimodality imaging facilities can significantly change the diagnostic and therapeutic management of CHD. When we say that some of the same countries with high CV mortality are the same ones with the lowest or inexistent availability of advanced imaging technologies, 8,15 we are not stating a causal relationship between lack of nuclear cardiology and high CV mortality. This association is much more complex and may reflect an overall challenging environment for socioeconomic development, which includes lower availability of advanced technology in medicine to guide treatment in general.…”

“…These modalities may use ionizing radiation but not always, such as the use of exercise treadmill testing, echocardiography, and magnetic resonance imaging. 6,8,9 This is where a global perspective in multimodality becomes useful.…”

“…Nuclear cardiology continues to be useful and higher the prevalence of disease, more important is the role of nuclear to guide management. 8 The presence or absence of myocardial ischemia in myocardial perfusion imaging with single photon emission computed tomography (MPI-SPECT) translates into different levels of risk. This information helps guide treatment and better allocate expensive medical resources, such as myocardial revascularization.…”