Predicting Atrial Fibrillation Risk

Example 4

A cohort of patients with a recent history of myocardial infarction are administered an effective amount of the imaging agent of the invention, images of each patient's left atrium are obtained and the uptake of the imaging agent is quantified. The patients also undergo a resting flurpiridaz F 18 myocardial perfusion study and the summed rest score determined for each patient. Logisitic regression analysis is performed to produce an equation expressing the likelihood of future AF as a function of summed rest score and quantified imaging agent uptake.