MUGA Test

gadgetman · Apr 25, 2005

I'm scheduled for my first MUGA Test since the surgery on the 29th. I guess they'll find out just how well this refurbished heart is moving that blood around in there. If all the "heart" tests were easy as this one, I would have straight "A's". Just receive the "glow in the dark" injection then lay on the table (that two by four again) while the machine takes pictures. Scheduled to see the Cardio May 3rd for results.

May God Bless,

Danny

Ross · Apr 26, 2005

What are you going to tell them when they find that stash of missing nurses in there?

Superbob · Apr 26, 2005

Dumb question, but what is a MUGA Test? (And I don't even dare ask how there would be nurses stashed in there. ) One of these days, someone ought to compile a glossary of acronyms used in this otherwise illuminating world. Or maybe that could be a community project.

Ross · Apr 26, 2005

The MUGA scan
From Richard N. Fogoros, M.D.,
Your Guide to Heart Disease / Cardiology.
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what it is, how it is used
The MUGA scan (MUltiple Gated Acquisition scan) is an extremely useful noninvasive tool for assessing the function of the heart. The MUGA scan produces a moving image of the beating heart, and from this image several important features can be determined about the health of the cardiac ventricles (the heart?s major pumping chambers).

http://heartdisease.about.com/cs/cardiactests/a/muga.htm

Superbob · Apr 26, 2005

Ahhhhh so. Thanks, Ross. They had to stretch a little to come up with a nice-sounding acronym (the MU part), didn't they? But I always learn something when I sign on vr.com, even when I do it at the end of another sleepless night, 9 weeks post-op.

gadgetman · Apr 26, 2005

Ross said:
What are you going to tell them when they find that stash of missing nurses in there?

So that's the extra weight on my shoulders

??????? And thanks for explaining what MUGA really is

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For RobHol,

Musta been a Suthun Doctu what named it

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Grew to hate all those acronyms while in the Military. They had an ancronym for just about everything and would usually "stretch" the envelope to get one people could actually use. I used to sing "DIA, CIA, M-O-U-S-E, (to the tune of the Mouseketeers theme song)" when I heard a new one.

May the "glow" be with you and

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May God Bless,

Danny