Table 1.

Indications for pharmacological myocardial perfusion imaging.

Inability to exercise

- Physical limitations (elderly people, etc.)

- Recent operation

- Peripheral artery disease

Limited exercise capacity

- Medication such as beta-blocker

- Poor motivation for exercise

- Limited physical conditions

Contraindications to exercise

- Aortic aneurysm

- Acute coronary syndrome

- Severe aortic stenosis

False positive results may occur

- Left bundle branch block

- Ventricular pacing

- Wolff–Parkinson–White syndrome