Issue 1/2023
Content (65 Articles)
In Memoriam Barry L. Zaret, MD 1940–2022
Frans J. Th. Wackers, Ami E. Iskandrian, Jeffrey Leppo, George A. Beller
A quick glance at selected topics in this issue
Pradeep Bhambhvani, Fadi G. Hage, Ami E. Iskandrian
The chest pain guidelines revisited: cherry picking from the frequentist tree
Timothy F. Christian
Cardiovascular disease in the literature: a selection of recent original research papers
Fadi G. Hage, Wael AlJaroudi
Nuclear cardiology in the literature: A selection of recent, original research papers
Richard L. Weinberg, Saurabh Malhotra
What is This Image? 2023: Image 5
What is this image? 2022 Image 4 result: Massive right ventricular hypertrophy detected by Tc-99m sestamibi SPECT MPI study
Matthew Peters, Steven Port
A highly predictive cardiac positron emission tomography (PET) risk score for 90-day and one-year major adverse cardiac events and revascularization
Raymond O. McCubrey, Steve M. Mason, Viet T. Le, Daniel L. Bride, Benjamin D. Horne, Kent G. Meredith, Nishant K. Sekaran, Jeffrey L. Anderson, Kirk U. Knowlton, David B. Min, Stacey Knight
Developing a framework for evaluating and comparing risk models
Waseem Hijazi, Robert J. H. Miller
Rest/stress myocardial perfusion imaging by positron emission tomography with 18F-Flurpiridaz: A feasibility study in mice
Susan Bengs, Geoffrey I. Warnock, Angela Portmann, Nidaa Mikail, Alexia Rossi, Hazem Ahmed, Dominik Etter, Valerie Treyer, Livio Gisler, Stefanie K. Pfister, Caitlin V. M. L. Jie, Alexander Meisel, Claudia Keller, Steven H. Liang, Roger Schibli, Linjing Mu, Ronny R. Buechel, Philipp A. Kaufmann, Simon M. Ametamey, Catherine Gebhard, Ahmed Haider
Time-related aortic inflammatory response, as assessed with 18F-FDG PET/CT, in patients hospitalized with severely or critical COVID-19: the COVAIR study
Charalambos Vlachopoulos, Dimitrios Terentes-Printzios, Paraskevi Katsaounou, Eirini Solomou, Vasiliki Gardikioti, Dimitrios Exarchos, Dimitrios Economou, Georgia Christopoulou, Antonios-Dimosthenis Kalkinis, Pavlos Kafouris, Alexios Antonopoulos, Georgios Lazaros, Anastasia Kotanidou, Ioannis Datseris, Konstantinos Tsioufis, Constantinos Anagnostopoulos
18F-FDG PET/CT for the diagnosis of aortic inflammation in COVID-19
Pieter van der Bijl, Jan Stassen, Jeroen J. Bax
Time-related aortic inflammatory response in severely or critical COVID-19
Rujittika Mungmunpuntipantip, Viroj Wiwanitkit
Increasing angular sampling through deep learning for stationary cardiac SPECT image reconstruction
Huidong Xie, Stephanie Thorn, Xiongchao Chen, Bo Zhou, Hui Liu, Zhao Liu, Supum Lee, Ge Wang, Yi-Hwa Liu, Albert J. Sinusas, Chi Liu
Quantitative 99mTc-DPD-SPECT/CT assessment of cardiac amyloidosis
Lukas Kessler, Pedro Fragoso Costa, David Kersting, Walter Jentzen, Manuel Weber, Peter Lüdike, Alexander Carpinteiro, Sara Oubari, Tim Hagenacker, Andreas Thimm, Tienush Rassaf, Ken Herrmann, Maria Papathanasiou, Christoph Rischpler
Quantifying the burden of cardiac amyloid: The future is about numbers!
Dominik C. Benz, Sharmila Dorbala, Aju P. Pazhenkottil
Deep learning prediction of quantitative coronary angiography values using myocardial perfusion images with a CZT camera
Ida Arvidsson, Anette Davidsson, Niels Christian Overgaard, Christos Pagonis, Kalle Åström, Elin Good, Jeronimo Frias-Rose, Anders Heyden, Miguel Ochoa-Figueroa
Quantitative single photon emission computed tomography derived standardized uptake values on 99mTc-PYP scan in patients with suspected ATTR cardiac amyloidosis
Juan Carlo Avalon, Jacob Fuqua, Seth Deskins, Tyler Miller, Justin Conte, Daniel Martin, Gary Marano, Naveena Yanamala, James Mills, Christopher Bianco, Brijesh Patel, Karthik Seetharam, Raymond Raylman, Partho P. Sengupta, Yasmin S. Hamirani
Quantitation in ATTR cardiac amyloidosis: the next step is almost there!
Gabriel Blacher Grossman
Stress cardiomyopathy as a cause of reverse redistribution with Tc-99m tetrofosmin regadenoson-rest myocardial perfusion imaging
Luke Joseph, Stephen Clarkson, Brittain Heindl, Ami E. Iskandrian, Fadi G. Hage
The prognostic and diagnostic implications of surveillance serial myocardial perfusion imaging in asymptomatic renal transplant candidates
Jonathan Tottleben, Julia Howland, Michael Rofael, Michael Lawrenz F. Co, Andrea Torres, Rami Doukky
Non-invasive diagnosis of vasospastic angina
Vincent Ngo, Anahita Tavoosi, Alexandre Natalis, Francois Harel, E. Marc Jolicoeur, Robert S. B. Beanlands, Matthieu Pelletier-Galarneau
Incorporating coronary artery calcium scoring in the prediction of obstructive coronary artery disease with myocardial ischemia: a study with sequential use of coronary computed tomography angiography and positron emission tomography imaging
Inge J. van den Hoogen, Xu Wang, Steele C. Butcher, Teemu Maaniitty, Jussi Schultz, Alexander R. van Rosendael, Antti Saraste, Juhani Knuuti, Jeroen J. Bax
The “power of zero” CAC validated for absence of ischemia on PET?
Daniel M. Huck, Brittany Weber
Beta-blockers and mechanical dyssynchrony in heart failure assessed by radionuclide ventriculography
K. A. Jones, C. A. Paterson, S. Ray, D. W. Motherwell, D. J. Hamilton, A. D. Small, W. Martin, N. E. R. Goodfield
A method using deep learning to discover new predictors from left-ventricular mechanical dyssynchrony for CRT response
Zhuo He, Xinwei Zhang, Chen Zhao, Xing Ling, Saurabh Malhotra, Zhiyong Qian, Yao Wang, Xiaofeng Hou, Jiangang Zou, Weihua Zhou
Value of rest 18F-FDG myocardial imaging in the diagnosis of obstructive coronary artery disease in Chinese patients with suspected unstable angina: A prospective real-world clinical study
Xiaoyu Yang, Feifei Zhang, Yongjun Chen, Xiaoliang Shao, Jianfeng Wang, Sheng Zhang, Guiliang Shi, Minfu Yang, Zhifang Wu, Sijin Li, Yuetao Wang
Strengths and weaknesses of alternative noninvasive imaging approaches for microvascular ischemia
Isabella Leo, Eleni Nakou, Jessica Artico, Emmanouil Androulakis, Joyce Wong, James C. Moon, Ciro Indolfi, Chiara Bucciarelli-Ducci
Performance of visual, manual, and automatic coronary calcium scoring of cardiac 13N-ammonia PET/low dose CT
Magdalena M. Dobrolinska, Sergiy V. Lazarenko, Friso M. van der Zant, Lonneke Does, Niels van der Werf, Niek H. J. Prakken, Marcel J. W. Greuter, Riemer H. J. A. Slart, Remco J. J. Knol
Using a deep learning algorithm to score coronary artery calcium in myocardial perfusion imaging: A real opportunity or just a new hype?
Jan Stassen, Pieter van der Bijl, Jeroen J. Bax
Incremental prognostic value of positron emission tomography derived left ventricular mass
Ahmed Ibrahim Ahmed, Jean Michel Saad, Yushui Han, Maan Malahfji, Mouaz H. Al-Mallah
Ongoing vascular inflammation evaluated by 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography in patients long after Kawasaki disease
Kenji Suda, Nobuhiro Tahara, Munehisa Bekki, Tomohisa Nakamura, Akihiro Honda, Shintaro Kishimoto, Yoshiyuki Kagiyama, Motofumi Iemura, Kiminori Fujimoto, Toshi Abe, Yoshihiro Fukumoto
Embers after fire: Are we close to real time visualization of persistent inflammation post-Kawasaki disease?
Jacqueline Monteiro Pires, Attila Feher
Clinical features and prognosis of isolated cardiac sarcoidosis diagnosed using new guidelines with dedicated FDG PET/CT
Tomohisa Okada, Naoto Kawaguchi, Masao Miyagawa, Marika Matsuoka, Rami Tashiro, Yuki Tanabe, Tomoyuki Kido, Toru Miyoshi, Haruhiko Higashi, Takeshi Inoue, Hideki Okayama, Osamu Yamaguchi, Teruhito Kido
Evaluation of isolated cardiac sarcoidosis applying updated Japanese guidelines
Valeria Moncayo
Quantification of intramyocardial blood volume using 99mTc-RBC SPECT/CT: a pilot human study
Hamed Yousefi, Luyao Shi, Aaron Soufer, Vera Tsatkin, Wendy Bruni, Ricardo Avendano, Kathleen Greco, Donna McMahon, Stephanie Thorn, Edward Miller, Albert Sinusas, Chi Liu
Hybrid imaging of neuroendocrine tumors in the heart: Union is strength
Maria E. Marketou, Nikolaos Kapsoritakis, Olga Bourogianni, Alexandros Patrianakos, George Kochiadakis, Anthoula Plevritaki, Sophia Papadaki, Stelios Zervakis, Fragiskos Parthenakis, Sophia Koukouraki
Fully automated deep learning powered calcium scoring in patients undergoing myocardial perfusion imaging
Thomas Sartoretti, Antonio G. Gennari, Elisabeth Sartoretti, Stephan Skawran, Alexander Maurer, Ronny R. Buechel, Michael Messerli
Application of a deep learning algorithm to calcium scoring in myocardial perfusion imaging
Pieter van der Bijl, Jan Stassen, Jeroen J. Bax
Development and validation of ischemia risk scores
Robert J. H. Miller, Alan Rozanski, Piotr J. Slomka, Donghee Han, Heidi Gransar, Sean W. Hayes, John D. Friedman, Louise E. J. Thomson, Daniel S. Berman
A novel cardiovascular risk assessment tool for the prediction of myocardial ischemia on imaging
Ammar Hasnie, Stephen Clarkson, Fadi G. Hage
To what extent does prior antimicrobial therapy affect the diagnostic performance of radiolabeled leukocyte scintigraphy in infective endocarditis?
Katarzyna Holcman, Paweł Rubiś, Bogdan Ćmiel, Andrzej Ząbek, Krzysztof Boczar, Wojciech Szot, Zuzanna Kalarus, Katarzyna Graczyk, Maksymilian Hanarz, Barbara Małecka, Piotr Podolec, Magdalena Kostkiewicz
Negative influence of antimicrobial therapy on radiolabeled white blood cells scintigraphy performance in infective endocarditis: myth or fact?
O. Kagna, Z. Keidar, S. Ben-Haim
Does [99mTc]-3,3-diphosphono-1,2-propanodicarboxylic acid (DPD) soft tissue uptake allow the identification of patients with the diagnosis of cardiac transthyretin-related (ATTR) amyloidosis with higher risk for polyneuropathy?
Tim Wollenweber, Elisabeth Kretschmer-Chott, Raphael Wurm, Sazan Rasul, Oana Kulterer, Rene Rettl, Franz Duca, Diana Bonderman, Kurt-Wolfram Sühs, Marcus Hacker, Tatjana Traub-Weidinger
Bone scintigraphy imaging and transthyretin-related (ATTR) cardiac amyloidosis: New tricks from an old tool?
Jessica M. Duran, Salvador Borges-Neto
The value of cardiac sympathetic activity and mechanical dyssynchrony as cardiac resynchronization therapy response predictors: comparison between patients with ischemic and non-ischemic heart failure
Anna I. Mishkina, Victor V. Saushkin, Tariel A. Atabekov, Svetlana I. Sazonova, Vladimir V. Shipulin, Samia Massalha, Roman E. Batalov, Sergey V. Popov, Konstantin V. Zavadovsky
Association between myocardial ischemia and plaque characteristics in chronic total occlusion
Sang-Geon Cho, Jong Eun Lee, Hyung Yoon Kim, Ho-Chun Song, Yun-Hyeon Kim
Coronary computed tomography angiography and single-photon emission computerized tomography in chronic total occlusions: the Rosetta Stone for PCI planning?
Fares Alahdab, Ahmed Ibrahim Ahmed, Mouaz Al-Mallah
Treatment response to Tafamidis quantitatively assessed by serial bone scintigraphy in transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy
Shoko Maeda-Ogata, Nobuhiro Tahara, Atsuko Tahara, Munehisa Bekki, Akihiro Honda, Yoichi Sugiyama, Sachiyo Igata, Toshi Abe, Yoshiki Sekijima, Mitsuharu Ueda, Yukio Ando, Yoshihiro Fukumoto
From the clinical spectrum of myocardial calcification to a cardiovascular imaging perspective
Layal Mansour, Christophe Ancedy, Yahia Bellouche, Mohamad Jihad Mansour, Florent Le Ven
Long-term intense FDG uptake in a non-infected prosthetic aortic heart valve implanted 18 years ago
Albert Roque, Emilia Blanco, Santiago Aguadé-Bruix, Núria Fernández-Hidalgo, Hug Cuellar-Calabria, María Nazarena Pizzi
Tc-99m PYP scintigraphy identified multi-organ disease associated with transthyretin Phe64Ser mutation
Xinyu Zhang, Juncheng Chen, Qing Zhang, Gongshun Tang
Aortitis and coronary artery vasculitis of unusual etiology: IgG4-related disease defined by 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG-PET)
Chrisselle Ahpin, Juliana Brenande de Oliveira Brito, Benjamin Chow, Eugene Leung
Delayed 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose PET/CT imaging improves detection of cardiac involvement in sarcoidosis
Sakura Kato, Tadao Aikawa, Tatsuro Ibe, Osamu Manabe, Noriko Oyama-Manabe
Previous BioGlue repair mimicking cardiac infection with 18F-FDG PET imaging
Neel P. Mistry, Mohammad AlShaheen, Eugene Leung, Benjamin Chow, Christiane Wiefels
FDG hypermetabolism in myocardial ischemia without flow-limiting lesions: Possible role of coronary microvascular dysfunction
Rahma M. Doudeen, M. Ziad Alresheq, Mais Halasa, Mousa Sayej, Abdullah Alhouri, Malik E. Juweid
Richter's transformation with isolated cardiac involvement diagnosed by 2-[18F]FDG PET/CT scan
Michal Pudis, Laura Gràcia-Sánchez, Azahara Muñoz-Palomar, Iván Ernesto Sánchez-Rodríguez, Montserrat Cortés-Romera
Right atrial angiosarcoma detected with 13N-NH3 myocardial PET/CT and 18F-FDG PET/CT
Han-Xiang Liang, Yue-Long Yang, Jing-Yun Ren, Zhi Xie, Qing Zhang, En-Tao Liu, Shu-Xia Wang
Correction to: A PatientFirst approach to test selection: Now and forever
Dennis A. Calnon