A nuclear stress test helps to assess your risk of a severe cardiac event. Depending on your health, a doctor may ask you to take a treadmill test or a chemical test, which uses medications to ...

The nuclear stress test can show how blood flows through your heart muscles. This reveals how well the heart pumps blood and areas of your heart muscles that do not get enough blood. Nuclear stress is ...

Patients identified by nuclear stress testing as having severe stress-induced myocardial ischemia (lack of blood flow to the heart) are likely to benefit from heart bypass surgery or angioplasty, ...