Issue 2/2013
Content (24 Articles)
The United States has lower life expectancy than other developed nations, despite having highest health care costs
George A. Beller
Use of regadenoson in end-stage renal disease
Ami E. Iskandrian, Fadi G. Hage, Jaekyeong Heo
A strategy of symptom-limited exercise with regadenoson-as-needed for stress myocardial perfusion imaging: A randomized controlled trial
Matthew W. Parker, Donna Chelle Morales, Hanna B. Slim, Alan W. Ahlberg, Deborah M. Katten, Giselle Cyr, Shishir Mathur, Afrooz Ardestani, Dimitrios Barmpouletos, Geeta Swamy Iyah, Steven M. Borer, Gary V. Heller
Safety and feasibility of adjunctive regadenoson injection at peak exercise during exercise myocardial perfusion imaging: The Both Exercise and Regadenoson Stress Test (BERST) trial
M. I. Ross, E. Wu, J. T. Wilkins, D. Gupta, S. Shen, D. Aulwes, K. Montero, T. A. Holly
The safety and tolerability of regadenoson in patients with end-stage renal disease: The first prospective evaluation
Rami Doukky, Maria Octavia Rangel, Marwan Wassouf, Rizcallah Dick, Ammar Alqaid, Raysa Morales Demori
Regadenoson pharmacologic stress for myocardial perfusion imaging: A three-way comparison between regadenoson administered at peak exercise, during walk recovery, or no-exercise
Randall C. Thompson, Harshal Patil, Elaine C. Thompson, Gregory S. Thomas, Mohammed Al-Amoodi, Kevin F. Kennedy, Kevin A. Bybee, A. Iain McGhie, James H. O’Keefe Jr., Lisa Oakes, Timothy M. Bateman
What is the value of stress 99mTc-tetrofosmin myocardial perfusion imaging for the assessment of very long-term outcome in obese patients?
Rebecca S. Korbee, Henk J. Boiten, Machiel Ottenhof, Roelf Valkema, Ron T. van Domburg, Arend F. L. Schinkel
Metabolic syndrome is not a predictor for cardiovascular events in Japanese patients with diabetes mellitus asymptomatic for coronary artery disease: A retrospective analysis of the J-ACCESS-2 study
Kenichi Nakajima, Yasuchika Takeishi, Shinro Matsuo, Yoshimitsu Yamasaki, Tsunehiko Nishimura
Evaluation of right ventricular volume and ejection fraction by gated 18F-FDG PET in patients with pulmonary hypertension: Comparison with cardiac MRI and CT
Lei Wang, Yan Zhang, Chaowu Yan, Jianguo He, Changming Xiong, Shihua Zhao, Wei Fang
Association between left ventricular mechanical dyssynchrony with myocardial perfusion and functional parameters in patients with left bundle branch block
Christopher Uebleis, Xaver Hoyer, Serge D. Van Kriekinge, Franziska Schuessler, Rüdiger Paul Laubender, Alexander Becker, Sebastian Lehner, Andrei Todica, Alexander Haug, Peter Bartenstein, Paul Cumming, Guido Germano, Marcus Hacker
Positron emission tomography in the assessment of left ventricular function in healthy rats: A comparison of four imaging methods
Andrei Todica, Guido Böning, Sebastian Lehner, Eliane Weidl, Paul Cumming, Carmen Wängler, Stephan G. Nekolla, Markus Schwaiger, Peter Bartenstein, Ralf Schirrmacher, M. Hacker
A multicenter evaluation of the appropriate use of single-photon emission tomography myocardial perfusion imaging in Greece
Efstratios Moralidis, Nafsika Papadimitriou, Maria Stathaki, Xanthi Xourgia, Tryfon Spyridonidis, Andreas Fotopoulos, Dimitrios Apostolopoulos, Nikolaos Karkavitsas, Anna Gotzamani-Psarrakou
Regadenoson: A focused update
Gopal Ghimire, Fadi G. Hage, Jaekyeong Heo, Ami E. Iskandrian
CT imaging of myocardial perfusion: Possibilities and perspectives
Alexander Becker, Christoph Becker
The role of F18-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography in guiding diagnosis and management in patients with known or suspected cardiac sarcoidosis
B. A. Mc Ardle, E. Leung, H. Ohira, M. S. Cocker, R. A. deKemp, J. DaSilva, D. Birnie, R. S. Beanlands, P. B. Nery
Which is the optimal acquisition time for FDG PET/CT imaging in patients with infective endocarditis?
Carmelo Caldarella, Lucia Leccisotti, Giorgio Treglia, Alessandro Giordano
Use of multimodality imaging to diagnose cardiac sarcoidosis as well as identify recurrence following heart transplantation
Michael Osborne, Swathy Kolli, Robert F. Padera, Masanao Naya, Eldrin Lewis, Sharmila Dorbala, Marcelo F. Di Carli, Ron Blankstein
Prognosis in the era of comparative effectiveness research
Mario Petretta, Alberto Cuocolo
Letter to the editor for prognosis in the era of comparative effectiveness research
Leslee J. Shaw