Myocardial perfusion SPECT can contribute to the prediction of cardiac events and survival in patients at all stages of CKD including those on hemodialysis.

Myocardial ischemic reduction detected by nuclear cardiology leads to a decrease in MCE rates after treatment in Japanese patients with CAD.

The TPD is evidently a quantitative index having high reproducibility and the automated quantification with it provides comparable results to the visual assessment by experienced interpreters. The automated quantification with the TPD is highly significant for clinical assessment of CAD, and allows easily performing myocardial perfusion SPECT imaging without expert interpreters.

The automated quantitative assessment with the Japanese NDB is useful for the detection of CAD when experts in visual interpretation of a myocardial perfusion SPECT image were absent in a clinical setting.

The risk scores obtained from this study are useful to predict MCEs in Japanese patients with CAD and are expected to be useful for management and informed consent of high-risk CAD patients.

The automated quantification with the TPD is useful for prognostic risk stratification of MCEs in Japanese patients with known or suspected CAD. Its predictive power is similar to that of the visual semi-quantification by expert interpreters.

Baseline and follow-up eGFRs as well as nuclear variables are useful to predict cardiac death in patients with known/suspected CAD.

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