Lung Sestamibi Uptake on Myocardial Perfusion Imaging and Outcomes in Chronic Kidney Disease.

Background And Objectives: In patients with CKD and end-stage kidney disease (ESKD), cardiac stress testing has low sensitivity and specificity for coronary disease. Alternate markers that are derived during the stress testing may enhance the predictive characteristic of stress testing. The objective was to examine the predictive characteristic of lung-to-heart ratio (LHR) in patients with CKD and ESKD.