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01-10-2020 | Positron Emission Tomography | Review Article

Myocardial perfusion imaging for diabetes: Key points from the evidence and clinical questions to be answered

Authors: Wanda Acampa, MD, PhD, Roberta Assante, MD, PhD, Emilia Zampella, MD, PhD, Mario Petretta, MD, Alberto Cuocolo, MD

Published in: Journal of Nuclear Cardiology | Issue 5/2020

Abstract

Diabetes represents a worldwide increasing problem and cardiovascular disease is the most common cause of death in diabetic patients. Pathophysiology that links diabetes to cardiovascular disease is a complex and multifactorial phenomenon evolving over time and involving both large blood vessels (macrovasculature) and small blood vessels (microvasculature). Myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) imaging by both single-photon emission computer tomography and positron emission tomography with different specific tracers has become an indispensable tool for discriminating normal from diseased myocardial tissues and left ventricular function and monitoring myocardial blood flows, leading to the evaluation of almost overall physiologic consequences of the macro- and microvascular impairment involved in diabetic patients. This review will provide an overview of the role of MPI in the diagnosis and risk assessment of patients with diabetes and suspected or known CAD.

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Title: Myocardial perfusion imaging for diabetes: Key points from the evidence and clinical questions to be answered
Authors: Wanda Acampa, MD, PhD
Roberta Assante, MD, PhD
Emilia Zampella, MD, PhD
Mario Petretta, MD
Alberto Cuocolo, MD
Publication date: 01-10-2020
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Keyword: Positron Emission Tomography
Published in: Journal of Nuclear Cardiology / Issue 5/2020
Print ISSN: 1071-3581
Electronic ISSN: 1532-6551
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12350-019-01846-1

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