Issue 5/2014
Content (32 Articles)
Are absolute myocardial blood flow PET measurements ready for clinical use?
Ernest V. Garcia
A selection of recent, original research papers
Saurabh Malhotra, Prem Soman
Asystole following regadenoson infusion in stable outpatients
Jeffrey Rosenblatt, Deirdre Mooney, Timothy Dunn, Mylan Cohen
Serious complications associated with regadenoson administration for myocardial perfusion imaging: A commentary
Fadi G. Hage, Ami E. Iskandrian
Increased intrathoracic and hepatic visceral adipose tissue independently correlates with coronary artery calcification in asymptomatic patients
Harshal R. Patil, Nirav T. Patil, Samantha I. King, Evan O’Keefe, Rajiv Chhabra, Shaya Ansari, Kevin F. Kennedy, Damini Dey, James H. O’Keefe, John H. Helzberg, Randall C. Thompson
Prognostic value of normal stress myocardial perfusion imaging in diabetic patients: A meta-analysis
Wanda Acampa, Valeria Cantoni, Roberta Green, Francesca Maio, Stefania Daniele, Carmela Nappi, Valeria Gaudieri, Giorgio Punzo, Mario Petretta, Alberto Cuocolo
Review of Cardiovascular Literature
Wael A. AlJaroudi, Fadi G. Hage
123I-mIBG scintigraphy: Yet another risk stratifier for the heart failure toolbox!
Samir Saba, Inmaculada Aban, Prem Soman
I-123 mIBG and Tc-99m myocardial SPECT imaging to predict inducibility of ventricular arrhythmia on electrophysiology testing: A retrospective analysis
Yanli Zhou, Weihua Zhou, Russell D. Folks, Daya N. Manatunga, Arnold F. Jacobson, Jeroen J. Bax, Ernest V. Garcia, Ji Chen
The “gray zone” for the heart to mediastinum MIBG uptake ratio
Mario Petretta, Teresa Pellegrino, Alberto Cuocolo
Quantitative interpretation of FDG PET/CT with myocardial perfusion imaging increases diagnostic information in the evaluation of cardiac sarcoidosis
Azadeh Ahmadian, Ashley Brogan, Jeffrey Berman, Aaron L. Sverdlov, Gustavo Mercier, Michael Mazzini, Praveen Govender, Frederick L. Ruberg, Edward J. Miller
Quantifying myocardial inflammation using F18-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography in cardiac sarcoidosis
Alfonso H. Waller, Ron Blankstein
Assessment of an intermediate reprojection technique transitioning from planar to SPECT radionuclide ventriculography
Jim O’Doherty, Bruno Rojas Fisher, Jonathan Mark Price, Kshama Wechalekar
The acute and chronic effects of different right ventricular site pacing on left ventricular mechanical synchrony as assessed by phase analysis of SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging
Hongxiang Zhang, Xiaofeng Hou, Yao Wang, Sheliang Xue, Kejiang Cao, Ji Chen, Jiangang Zou
Phase analysis of myocardial SPECT to understand mechanisms of disease and therapy
Prem Soman
Multicenter cross-calibration of I-123 metaiodobenzylguanidine heart-to-mediastinum ratios to overcome camera-collimator variations
Kenichi Nakajima, Koichi Okuda, Mana Yoshimura, Shinro Matsuo, Hiroshi Wakabayashi, Yasuhiro Imanishi, Seigo Kinuya
Quantification of I-123-meta-iodobenzylguanidine Heart-to-Mediastinum Ratios: Not So Simple After All
Piotr J. Slomka, Puja K. Mehta, Guido Germano, Daniel S. Berman
Preclinical characterization of a novel radiolabeled analog of practolol for the molecular imaging of myocardial β-adrenoceptor density
Eric Carbonnelle, Véronique Josserand, Laurent M. Riou, Olivier Ormezzano, Alexis Broisat, Pascale Perret, Gilles Barone-Rochette, Daniel Fagret, Catherine Ghezzi
F-18 FDG PET/CT in the evaluation of Takayasu arteritis: An experience from the tropics
Sampath Santhosh, Bhagwant Rai Mittal, Shankaramurthy Gayana, Anish Bhattacharya, Aman Sharma, Sanjay Jain
Stress positron emission tomography is safe and can guide coronary revascularization in high-risk patients being considered for transcatheter aortic valve replacement
Paul C. Cremer, Shaden Khalaf, Junyang Lou, Leonardo Rodriguez, Manuel D. Cerqueira, Wael A. Jaber
Is TOMPOOL (gated blood-pool SPECT processing software) accurate to diagnose right and left ventricular dysfunction in a clinical setting?
Laurent Dercle, Thomas Giraudmaillet, Pierre Pascal, Olivier Lairez, Roland Chisin, Marie-Agnès Marachet, Monia Ouali, Hervé Rousseau, Delphine Bastié, Isabelle Berry
Relationship of decreased accumulation of 99mTc-tetrofosmin on myocardial single-photon emission computed tomography images between QRS duration in dilated cardiomyopathy patient with left bundle branch block
Sachiko Takamine, Sei Fujiwara, Mayumi Shigeru, Tatsuro Ito, Hiroya Kawai, Hideyuki Shiotani, Ken-ichi Hirata
Multimodality cardiac imaging of a patient with syncope
Dhaval Kolte, Kedar Sankholkar, Sahil Khera, Amar B. Shah, Rocco J. Lafaro, Diwakar Jain
Trivascular coronary artery ectasia: Challenging hybrid PET/CT myocardial blood flow measurement
E. Alexanderson, M. M. Martínez-Aguilar, L. E. Juárez-Orozco, A. Jordán-Ríos, S. Maury-Ordaz, E. Magaña-Bailon, A. Meave
Buccal caffeine for the routine reversal of Persantine
Murray Matangi, Peter Dutchak
Regadenoson-induced bradycardia and hypotension: Possible mechanism and antidote
S. R. Underwood, K. A. Latus, E. Reyes, K. Standbridge, S. Walker, K. Wechalekar