Issue 1/2020
Content (56 Articles)
A quick glance at selected topics in this issue
Pradeep Bhambhvani, Fadi G. Hage, Ami E. Iskandrian
Cardiovascular disease in the literature: A selection of recent original research papers
Wael A. AlJaroudi, Fadi G. Hage
Nuclear cardiology in the literature: A selection of recent, original research papers
Saurabh Malhotra
What is this image? 2020: Image 5
The voyage: Amalgating a social media platform through the annual scientific meeting
Niti R. Aggarwal, Renée P. Bullock-Palmer
Simultaneous Tc-99m PYP/Tl-201 dual-isotope SPECT myocardial imaging in patients with suspected cardiac amyloidosis
Balaji Tamarappoo, Yuka Otaki, Osamu Manabe, Mark Hyun, Stephanie Cantu, Yoav Arnson, Heidi Gransar, Sean W. Hayes, John D. Friedman, Louise Thomson, Piotr Slomka, Damini Dey, Robert Vescio, Jignesh Patel, Daniel S. Berman
Imaging of cardiac amyloidosis: Will this become a unique application for dual-isotope imaging?
Sarah Cuddy, Sharmila Dorbala, Marcelo F. Di Carli
Risk stratification based on J-ACCESS risk models with myocardial perfusion imaging: Risk versus outcomes of patients with chronic kidney disease
Kenichi Nakajima, Satoko Nakamura, Hiroki Hase, Yasuchika Takeishi, Shigeyuki Nishimura, Yuhei Kawano, Tsunehiko Nishimura
Cardiovascular risk prediction models with myocardial perfusion imaging in chronic kidney disease: ACCESSing digits or focusing on the patient?
Dimitri Patriki, Andreas A. Giannopoulos
Multimodality imaging: Bird’s eye view from the European Society of Cardiology Congress 2019 Paris, August 31st–September 4th, 2019
Victoria Delgado, Antti Saraste, Marc Dweck, Chiara Bucciarelli-Ducci, Jeroen J. Bax
Analysis of partial volume correction on quantification and regional heterogeneity in cardiac PET
A. Turco, J. Nuyts, J. Duchenne, O. Gheysens, J. U. Voigt, P. Claus, K. Vunckx
Left ventricular eccentricity index measured with SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging: An additional parameter of adverse cardiac remodeling
Alessia Gimelli, Riccardo Liga, Alberto Clemente, Gavino Marras, Annette Kusch, Paolo Marzullo
Investigation of the physical effects of respiratory motion compensation in a large population of patients undergoing Tc-99m cardiac perfusion SPECT/CT stress imaging
P. Hendrik Pretorius, Karen L. Johnson, Seth T. Dahlberg, Michael A. King
Pattern of myocardial 99mTc-HMDP uptake and impact on myocardial function in patients with transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis
Sarah Pradel, Stéphanie Brun, Gérard Victor, Pierre Pascal, Pauline Fournier, David Ribes, Yoan Lavie-Badie, Michel Galinier, Didier Carrié, Isabelle Berry, Olivier Lairez, Stanislas Faguer, Pascal Cintas, Laurent Alric, Daniel Adoue, Laurent Sailler, Léonardo Astudillo, Bénédicte Puissant, Grégoire Prévot, Dominique Chauveau, Antoine Huart, Magali Colombat, Audrey Delas, Joelle Guitard, Pauline Bernadet Monrozies, Murielle Roussel, Eve Cariou, Delphine Dupin-Deguine
Cardiac amyloidosis: A new challenge of multimodality imaging
Carmela Nappi, Roberta Assante, Emilia Zampella, Alberto Cuocolo
18-FDG-PET in a patient cohort suspected for cardiac sarcoidosis: Right ventricular uptake is associated with pathological uptake in mediastinal lymph nodes
Heikki Tuominen, Atte Haarala, Antti Tikkakoski, Mika Kähönen, Kjell Nikus, Kalle Sipilä
Importance of extracardiac FDG uptake to diagnose cardiac sarcoidosis
Nobuhiro Tahara, Munehisa Bekki, Yoichi Sugiyama, Atsuko Tahara, Yoshihiro Fukumoto
Cardiac amyloidosis imaging with amyloid positron emission tomography: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Yong Joong Kim, Sejin Ha, Yong-il Kim
Better characterization of dipyridamole-induced myocardial stunning by systolic wall thickening. A gated perfusion SPECT study
Alberto Bestetti, Besart Cuko, Massimo Gasparini, Stefano De Servi
Machine learning in the integration of simple variables for identifying patients with myocardial ischemia
Luis Eduardo Juarez-Orozco, Remco J.J. Knol, Carlos A. Sanchez-Catasus, Octavio Martinez-Manzanera, Friso M. van der Zant, Juhani Knuuti
The machine learning approach: Artificial intelligence is coming to support critical clinical thinking
Carmela Nappi, Alberto Cuocolo
Sex and age differences in the association of heart rate responses to adenosine and myocardial ischemia in patients undergoing myocardial perfusion imaging
Catherine Gebhard, Michael Messerli, Christine Lohmann, Valerie Treyer, Susan Bengs, Dominik C. Benz, Andreas A. Giannopoulos, Ken Kudura, Elia von Felten, Moritz Schwyzer, Oliver Gaemperli, Christoph Gräni, Aju P. Pazhenkottil, Ronny R. Buechel, Philipp A. Kaufmann
Is physiology of coronary blood flow different in men and women?
Raffaele Giubbini, Domenico Albano
18F-fluorodeoxyglucose use after cardiac transplant: A comparative study of suppression of physiological myocardial uptake
Renata Christian Martins Felix, Clécio Maria Gouvea, Christiane Cigagna Wiefels Reis, Jacqueline Sampaio dos Santos Miranda, Ligia Beatriz Chaves Espinoso Schtruk, Alexandre Siciliano Colafranceschi, Cláudio Tinoco Mesquita
Opening the door to noninvasive assessment of cardiac transplant rejection: It’s all in the preparation
Pavithra S. Jayadeva, Nathan Better
Quantitative Clinical Nuclear Cardiology, Part 1: Established Applications
Ernest V. Garcia, Piotr Slomka, Jonathan B. Moody, Guido Germano, Edward P. Ficaro
Significance of 11C-PIB PET/CT in cardiac amyloidosis compared with 99mTc-aprotinin scintigraphy: A pilot study
Ryogo Minamimoto, Toru Awaya, Kentaro Iwama, Masatoshi Hotta, Kazuhiko Nakajima, Risen Hirai, Osamu Okazaki, Yukio Hiroi
The evolving landscape of nuclear imaging in cardiac amyloidosis
Steven J. Promislow, Terrence D. Ruddy
Estimating cancer risk from 99mTc pyrophosphate imaging for transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis
Andrew J. Einstein, Igor Shuryak, Adam Castaño, Akiva Mintz, Mathew S. Maurer, Sabahat Bokhari
Tc-99m pyrophosphate imaging for transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis: Importance of estimation of cancer risk with the modality
Shivda Pandey, Omar K. Siddiqi
Ultra-low-dose computed tomography for attenuation correction of cadmium-zinc-telluride single photon emission computed tomography myocardial perfusion imaging
Marvin Grossmann, Andreas A. Giannopoulos, Fabiola A. Bechtiger, Michael Messerli, Moritz Schwyzer, Dominik C. Benz, Ken Kudura, Catherine Gebhard, Christoph Gräni, Aju P. Pazhenkottil, Philipp A. Kaufmann, Ronny R. Buechel
The clinical usefulness of phase analysis in detecting coronary artery disease using dipyridamole thallium-201-gated myocardial perfusion imaging with a cadmium-zinc-telluride camera
Wan-Ling Lin, Shan-Ying Wang, Yu-Chien Shiau, Yen-Wen Wu
Left ventricular mechanical dyssynchrony for CAD diagnosis: Does it have incremental clinical values?
Zhixin Jiang, Weihua Zhou
SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging in liver transplantation candidates
W. Lane Duvall, Aditi Singhvi, Nidhi Tripathi, Milena J. Henzlova
Low yield of routine stress testing in patients awaiting liver transplantation
Cigdem Akincioglu, Saurabh Malhotra
Clinical significance of quantitative assessment of glucose utilization in patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy
Kuan-Yin Ko, Shan-Ying Wang, Ruoh-Fang Yen, Yu-Chien Shiau, Jung-Cheng Hsu, Hao-Yuan Tsai, Chien-Lin Lee, Kuan-Ming Chiu, Yen-Wen Wu
Prognostic effect and modulation of cardiac sympathetic function in heart failure patients treated with cardiac resynchronization therapy
Rita Ilhão Moreira, Ana Abreu, Guilherme Portugal, Luís Oliveira, Mário Oliveira, Inês Rodrigues, Madalena Coutinho Cruz, Pedro Silva Cunha, Vanessa Santos, Helena Santa Clara, Miguel Mota Carmo, Rui Cruz Ferreira
123I-meta-Iodobenzylguanidine Imaging in Patients with Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy: Results are Intriguing, but Unknowns Remain
Anisiia Doytchinova, Myron C. Gerson
Diagnostic yield of 18F-FDG PET/CT in suspected diagnosis of vascular graft infection: A prospective cohort study
Hans Bowles, Juan Ambrosioni, Gaspar Mestres, Marta Hernández-Meneses, Nuria Sánchez, Jaime Llopis, Xavier Yugueros, Manel Almela, Asunción Moreno, Vicenç Riambau, David Fuster, Jose M. Miró, Jose M. Miró, Juan M. Pericàs, Adrian Téllez, Marta Hernandez-Meneses, Asunción Moreno, Cristina Garcia de la Mària, Javier Garcia-Gonzalez, Francesc Marco, Manel Almela, Jordi Vila, Eduard Quintana, Elena Sandoval, Juan C. Paré, Carlos Falces, Daniel Pereda, Ramon Cartañá, Salvador Ninot, Manel Azqueta, Marta Sitges, Barbara Vidal, José L. Pomar, Manuel Castella, José M. Tolosana, José Ortiz, Guillermina Fita, Irene Rovira, David Fuster, Jose Ramírez, Mercè Brunet, Dolors Soy, Pedro Castro, Jaume Llopis
How useful is 18F-FDG PET/CT in patients with suspected vascular graft infection?
Jean-François Sarrazin, Mikaël Trottier, Michel Tessier
Cases from a busy nuclear cardiology laboratory
Vedran Oruc, Blake Smith, Navkaranbir S. Bajaj, Pradeep Bhambhvani, Ami E. Iskandrian, Fadi G. Hage
Regadenoson myocardial perfusion scintigraphy for the evaluation of coronary artery disease in patients with lung disease: A series of five cases
Eliana Reyes, Stephen Richard Underwood
Cardiac sarcoidosis with complete metabolic response and resolution of left ventricular dysfunction complicated by subsequent VT storm
J. See, R Sharma, K Wechalekar
Viability assessment by 18F-FDG PET in a patient with a large left ventricular aneurysm and obstructive coronary artery disease
Eigo Kurebayashi, Osamu Manabe, Masanao Naya, Shiro Miura, Takehiro Yamashita, Yoshihiro Imai, Akira Ando, Chihoko Miyazaki, Toshihisa Anzai
2-Year follow-up of a patient with CD36 deficiency and takotsubo cardiomyopathy
Akihiro Nakajima, Kentaro Tanaka, Sunao Nakamura
Takayasu arteritis detected by PET/MRI with 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose
Yasuchika Takeishi, Takatoyo Kiko, Tetsuro Yokokawa, Hiroyuki Kunii, Shohei Ichimura, Shiori Takizawa, Atsuro Masuda, Takashi Kaneshiro, Takuya Ando, Seiichi Takenoshita
Pituitary apoplexy after regadenoson myocardial perfusion scan
Suchith Shetty, Joseph Gnanaraj, Sitalakshmi Jayamani Roshan, Ramzi El Accaoui
Large cardiac metastasis from pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor and response to peptide receptor radionuclide therapy with 177Lu-DOTATATE
Rahul V. Parghane, Sandip Basu
Nuclear cardiology in the information age
Sharmila Dorbala