Issue 4/2023
Content (70 Articles)
What is this image? 2023 image 1 results: Precision high-resolution CZT SPECT imaging to evaluate cardiac aTTR amyloidosis
Erin M. Armenia, Maria L. Mackin, Piotr Karmilowicz, Anas Jawaid, Michael V. Hannon, Farhan Bajwa, Sabu Thomas, Hima Vidula, Jeffrey Alexis, Prem Soman, Ronald G. Schwartz
What is this image? 2023: Image 2
Decline in typical angina among patients referred for cardiac stress testing
Alan Rozanski, Donghee Han, Robert J. H. Miller, Heidi Gransar, Piotr J. Slomka, Sean W. Hayes, John D. Friedman, Louise E. J. Thomson, Daniel S. Berman
Is dyspnea the new angina? The ever-changing profile of patients referred for CAD evaluation
Rami Doukky, Milena Henzlova
Role of nuclear cardiology in diagnosis and risk stratification of coronary microvascular disease
Terrence D. Ruddy, Anahita Tavoosi, Viviany R. Taqueti
Dose-consistent dynamic SPECT
A. Krakovich, E. Gelbart, I. Moalem, A. Naimushin, E. Rozen, M. Scheinowitz, R. Goldkorn
Left-ventricular volumes and ejection fraction from cardiac ECG-gated 15O-water positron emission tomography compared to cardiac magnetic resonance imaging using simultaneous hybrid PET/MR
Jonny Nordström, Sofia Kvernby, Tanja Kero, Jens Sörensen, Hendrik J. Harms, Mark Lubberink
Cardiac DPD-uptake time dependency in ATTR patients verified by quantitative SPECT/CT and semiquantitative planar parameters
Tim Wollenweber, Rene Rettl, Elisabeth Kretschmer-Chott, Sazan Rasul, Oana Cristina Kulterer, Kilian Kluge, Franz Duca, Diana Bonderman, Marcus Hacker, Tatjana Traub-Weidinger
Time is a gift: time-dependent uptake of DPD in cardiac amyloidosis
Sabahat Bokhari, Amna Zafar
Diagnostic value of heart-to-mediastinum ratio in 99mTc-pyrophospate SPECT/CT for transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis
Takenori Ikoma, Hayato Ohtani, Kazuto Ohno, Keisuke Iguchi, Kenichiro Suwa, Michifumi Sawada, Yukichi Tanahashi, Atsushi Sakamoto, Masao Saotome, Shintaro Ichikawa, Satoshi Goshima, Yuichiro Maekawa
Quantitative PYP metrics: separating the wheat from the chaff
Dominik C. Benz, Sharmila Dorbala
Comparison of the prognostic value of impaired stress myocardial blood flow, myocardial flow reserve, and myocardial flow capacity on low-dose Rubidium-82 SiPM PET/CT
Matthieu Dietz, Christel H. Kamani, Gilles Allenbach, Vladimir Rubimbura, Stephane Fournier, Vincent Dunet, Giorgio Treglia, Marie Nicod Lalonde, Niklaus Schaefer, Eric Eeckhout, Olivier Muller, John O. Prior
More evidence for prognostic value of quantification of myocardial perfusion
Antti Saraste, Juhani Knuuti, Jeroen J. Bax
Impact of disposable syringes type choice on myocardial perfusion imaging procedures with [99mTc]Tc-tetrofosmin
Typhanie Ladriere, Cedric Desmonts, Pierre-André Zimmermann, Damien Peyronnet, Denis Agostini, Jonathan Vigne
Performance of 8- vs 16 ECG-gated reconstructions in assessing myocardial function using Rubidium-82 myocardial perfusion imaging: Findings in a young, healthy population
Martin Lyngby Lassen, Mads Wissenberg, Christina Byrne, Andreas Kjaer, Philip Hasbak
Diagnostic performance characteristics of planar quantitative and semi-quantitative parameters of Tc99m pyrophosphate (PYP) imaging for diagnosis of transthyretin (ATTR) cardiac amyloidosis: the SCAN-MP study
Shivda Pandey, Sergio Teruya, Carlos Rodriguez, Albert Deluca, Mona Kinkhabwala, Lynne L. Johnson, Denise Fine, Natalia Sabogal, Morgan Winburn, Michelle Castillo, Ketan Bhatia, Rita Malkovskaya, Farbod Raiszadeh, Damian Kurian, Edward J. Miller, Andrew J. Einstein, Mathew S. Maurer, Frederick L. Ruberg
Amyloid myopathy: expanding the clinical spectrum of transthyretin amyloidosis—case report and literature review
Maria Ungericht, Julia Wanschitz, Alexander S. Kroiss, Christoph Röcken, Thomas Schuetz, Moritz Messner, Marc-Michael Zaruba, Wolfgang N. Loescher, Gerhard Poelzl
Prognostic value of myocardial flow reserve derived by quantitative SPECT for patients with intermediate coronary stenoses
Ruoxi Sun, Rongzheng Ma, Meng Wang, Kai Han, Zongyao Zhang, Lei Wang, Wei Fang
SPECT measurements of myocardial blood flow and flow reserve: from development to implementation
Andrew Van Tosh, Kenneth J. Nichols
External validation and update of the J-ACCESS model in an Italian cohort of patients undergoing stress myocardial perfusion imaging
Mario Petretta, Rosario Megna, Roberta Assante, Emilia Zampella, Carmela Nappi, Valeria Gaudieri, Teresa Mannarino, Roberta Green, Valeria Cantoni, Adriana D’Antonio, Mariarosaria Panico, Wanda Acampa, Alberto Cuocolo
A cardiovascular risk model validated in Japan applied to an Italian cohort: Procedere con prudenza
Edward A. Hulten
Extracardiac findings with increased perfusion during clinical O-15-H2O PET/CT myocardial perfusion imaging: A case series
Mads Ryø Jochumsen, David Lyse Overgaard, Mikkel Holm Vendelbo, Michael Alle Madsen, Lars Poulsen Tolbod, Lars Christian Gormsen, Trine Ørhøj Barkholt
Prevalence and nature of extracardiac findings in PET/CT myocardial perfusion imaging
Sthuthi David, René R. Sevag Packard
Radiomics for the detection of diffusely impaired myocardial perfusion: A proof-of-concept study using 13N-ammonia positron emission tomography
Ganna Degtiarova, Chrysoula Garefa, Reto Boehm, Domenico Ciancone, Daniel Sepulcri, Catherine Gebhard, Andreas A. Giannopoulos, Aju P. Pazhenkottil, Philipp A. Kaufmann, Ronny R. Buechel
Splenic switch-off in regadenoson 82Rb-PET myocardial perfusion imaging: assessment of clinical utility
Jean Michel Saad, Ahmed Ibrahim Ahmed, Yushui Han, Lamees I. El Nihum, Fares Alahdab, Faisal Nabi, Mouaz H. Al-Mallah
Extensive cardiac FDG uptake in a patient with AL amyloidosis
Suzan Hatipoglu, Ashutosh D. Wechalekar, Kshama Wechalekar
Machine learning based model to diagnose obstructive coronary artery disease using calcium scoring, PET imaging, and clinical data
J. A. van Dalen, S. S. Koenders, R. J. Metselaar, B. N. Vendel, D. J. Slotman, M. Mouden, C. H. Slump, J. D. van Dijk
The power of zero calcium in 82-Rubidium PET irrespective of sex and age
Simon M. Frey, Olivier F. Clerc, Ursina Honegger, Melissa Amrein, Kathrin Thommen, Federico Caobelli, Philip Haaf, Christian E. Müller, Michael J. Zellweger
Does financial hardship associate with abnormal quantitative myocardial perfusion and major adverse cardiovascular event?
Danai Kitkungvan, Nils P. Johnson, Linh Bui, Monica B. Patel, Amanda E. Roby, Mary Haynie, Richard Kirkeeide, Susan Hood, K. Lance Gould
Financial hardship and major adverse cardiovascular events: The role of advanced cardiac imaging
Kaitlin Shinn, Venkatesh L. Murthy
Prednisone vs methotrexate in treatment naïve cardiac sarcoidosis
Roeland Vis, Harold Mathijssen, Ruth G. M. Keijsers, Ewoudt M. W. van de Garde, Marcel Veltkamp, Fatima Akdim, Marco C. Post, Jan C. Grutters
Methotrexate for cardiac sarcoidosis: is it justifiable?
Tomoya Sato, Tadao Aikawa
Relationship between impaired myocardial blood flow by positron emission tomography and low-attenuation plaque burden and pericoronary adipose tissue attenuation from coronary computed tomography: From the prospective PACIFIC trial
Keiichiro Kuronuma, Pepijn A. van Diemen, Donghee Han, Andrew Lin, Kajetan Grodecki, Jacek Kwiecinski, Manish Motwani, Priscilla McElhinney, Guadalupe Flores Tomasino, Caroline Park, Alan Kwan, Evangelos Tzolos, Eyal Klein, Benjamin Shou, Balaji Tamarappoo, Sebastien Cadet, Ibrahim Danad, Roel S. Driessen, Daniel S. Berman, Piotr J. Slomka, Damini Dey, Paul Knaapen
The fat and the flow: multiparametric imaging assessment of pericoronary adipose tissue and myocardial blood flow
Ibolya Csecs, Attila Feher
Comparison of cardiac magnetic resonance imaging and fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography in the assessment of cardiac sarcoidosis: Meta-analysis and systematic review
Mehul Adhaduk, Bishow Paudel, Muhammad Umar Khalid, Mahi Ashwath, Shareef Mansour, Kan Liu
Diagnostic testing in cardiac sarcoidosis: what comes first?
Purvi Parwani, Amit R. Patel
Cardiac amyloidosis in Latin America: Gaps and opportunities to increase awareness of the disease. Findings from the AMILO-LATAM research group
Fernando Mut, Isabel Carvajal, Jorge Camilletti, Juan Erriest, Erick Alexanderson, Gabriel Blacher Grossman
A retrospective evaluation of Bayesian-penalized likelihood reconstruction for [15O]H2O myocardial perfusion imaging
Reetta Siekkinen, Chunlei Han, Teemu Maaniitty, Mika Teräs, Juhani Knuuti, Antti Saraste, Jarmo Teuho
Effects of olmesartan and amlodipine on blood pressure, endothelial function, and vascular inflammation
Akihiro Honda, Nobuhiro Tahara, Atsuko Tahara, Munehisa Bekki, Shoko Maeda-Ogata, Yoichi Sugiyama, Sachiyo Igata, Yuri Nishino, Takanori Matsui, Seiji Kurata, Toshi Abe, Sho-ichi Yamagishi, Yoshihiro Fukumoto
Targeting atherosclerosis with antihypertensive therapy
Terrence D. Ruddy, Yoshito Kadoya, Gary R. Small
Machine learning-based prediction of conversion coefficients for I-123 metaiodobenzylguanidine heart-to-mediastinum ratio
Koichi Okuda, Kenichi Nakajima, Chiemi Kitamura, Michael Ljungberg, Tetsuo Hosoya, Yumiko Kirihara, Mitsumasa Hashimoto
Anti-inflammatory effect of biologic therapy in patients with psoriatic disease: A prospective cohort FDG PET study
Kevin E. Boczar, Rob S. Beanlands, Steven J. Glassman, Jerry Wang, Wanzhen Zeng, Robert A. deKemp, Natalie C. Ward, Christophe A. Fehlmann, George A. Wells, Jacob Karsh, Girish Dwivedi
PET-FDG for vascular imaging: a “visual barometer” for inflammatory risk?
Pourya Yarahmadi, Patricia K. Nguyen
Regional CZT myocardial perfusion reserve for the detection of territories with simultaneously impaired CFR and IMR in patients without obstructive coronary artery disease: a pilot study
Loïc Djaïleb, Nicolas De Leiris, Marjorie Canu, Olivier Phan Sy, Alexandre Seiller, Julien Leenhardt, Clémence Charlon, Marine Faure, Jessica Caillard, Alexis Broisat, Anne-Laure Borel, Sandrine Lablanche, Cécile Betry, Catherine Ghezzi, Gérald Vanzetto, Daniel Fagret, Laurent M. Riou, Gilles Barone-Rochette
Myocardial perfusion reserve by CZT cameras: A journey inside coronary microvascular circulation. Is it time to leave yet?
Emilia Zampella, Roberta Assante, Wanda Acampa
Incidental scan findings in cardiac amyloid scintigraphy
E. Gordon DePuey
Looking inside AND outside the heart
Padma P. Manapragada, Pradeep Bhambhvani
Myocardial fibroblast activation imaging in light chain cardiac amyloidosis
Xiao-Ying Xi, Li Wang, Aijun Liu, Min-Fu Yang
LV functional evaluation on 11C-PiB PET/CT in cardiac amyloidosis
Misaki Miyatake, Takashi Norikane, Masashi Imajo, Yasukage Takami, Katsuya Mitamura, Yuka Yamamoto, Yukito Maeda, Takahisa Noma, Yoshihiro Nishiyama
Cardiac fibroblast activation imaging in a patient with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
Yu Zhang, Yi-Lu Wang, Min-Fu Yang, Li Wang
Inflammatory response of Teflon felt strip 41 years after surgical repair for Ebstein’s anomaly
Takanori Kono, Nobuhiro Tahara, Munehisa Bekki, Kosuke Saku, Yoichi Sugiyama, Akihiro Honda, Tohru Takaseya, Takahiro Shojima, Kazuyoshi Takagi, Toshi Abe, Yoshihiro Fukumoto, Eiki Tayama
18F-FDG PET/CT assisted exclusion of cardiac device-related infective endocarditis
Adnan Halboni, John Dawdy, Tushar Mishra, John Dayco, Anupama Kottam
[68Ga]-DOTATOC PET/CT in myocardial metastases of neuroendocrine neoplasms
Yiraldine Herrera-Martínez, José Luis Vercher-Conejero, Juan José Martín-Marcuartu, Alex Telué Vega, Fernando Guerrero-Pérez, Montserrat Cortés Romera
High-resolution PET demonstrates extensive ischemia/fibrosis mismatch in a patient with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: the power of multimodality image fusion
A. M. Crean, G. S. Small, B. J. W. Chow, T. D. Ruddy, R. S. B. Beanlands, R. A. deKemp
Myocardial perfusion imaging in patients with subcutaneous implantable cardioverter defibrillators: Is this the correct test?
John Dawdy, Xavier Akins, Irfan Shafi, Anupama Kottam
11C-MET PET for diagnosis and therapeutic monitoring in a patient with IgG4-related periaortitis/periarteritis concomitant with atherosclerosis
Takashi Norikane, Yuka Yamamoto, Hiroaki Dobashi, Takahisa Noma, Yoshihiro Nishiyama
PET myocardial perfusion imaging in superior vena cava syndrome
Kenechukwu Mezue, David Chow, Ahmed Tawakol, Georges El Fakhri, Michael T. Osborne
A story of resolved ischemia from anomalous coronary arteries as told by PET/CT
Tiffany Dong, Tom Kai Ming Wang, Paul Cremer, Hani K. Najm, Wael Jaber
Importance of multimodality imaging approach for the detection of a cardiac metastasis in a patient with a large B-cell lymphoma
Sara Pacella
Multimodality cardiac imaging for the management of cardiac masses
Christoph Gräni
In the thick of it: highlighting the importance of SPECT imaging
Waseem Hijazi, Robert J. H. Miller
Reply to the letter: In the thick of it: highlighting the importance of SPECT imaging
Dia A. Smiley, Mathew S. Maurer, Andrew J. Einstein
Using standardized uptake values in pyrophosphate imaging
Jia Wen Chong, Shao Teng Chong, Joseph C. Lee
Response to letter to the editor
Juan Carlo Avalon, Raymond Raylman, Yasmin S. Hamirani
Recent clinical trials support continued emphasis on patient-first over modality-first approaches to initial test selection in patients with stable ischemic heart disease
Nishant R. Shah, Edward A. Hulten, Suman Tandon, Venkatesh L. Murthy, Sharmila Dorbala, Randall C. Thompson
Revascularization of non-culprit lesions: A common dilemma
Valeria Cantoni, Roberta Green, Emilia Zampella, Adriana D’Antonio, Alberto Cuocolo