Friday, September 26, 2014

What Is A MUGA?

That's a good question.  Harriet was scheduled to have her MUGA test yesterday, but they called her and rescheduled for today due to problems with the imaging machine.

The MUGA is: The MUGA scan (MUltiple Gated Acquisition scan) is an often-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).

I was told they inject her with some type of  solution and she rests for half an hour and then they do the imaging.  It seems that a lot of these tests are to establish "benchmarks", so that as the chemotherapy progresses, they have something to compare it to what is normal.

Yesterday was a pretty good day.  And we are thankful for these good days between the chemotherapy.  I want to thank you for your continued prayers and support.

God bless you my friends,
Frank and Harriet

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