Issue 2/2019
Content (60 Articles)
A quick glance at selected topics in this issue
Pradeep Bhambhvani, Fadi G. Hage, Ami E. Iskandrian
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
Saurabh Malhotra
What is this image? 2019: Image 6
What is this image? 2019: Image 5 result
Jessica I. Gupta, James R. Corbett, Venkatesh L. Murthy, Richard L. Weinberg
The utility of 82Rb PET for myocardial viability assessment: Comparison with perfusion-metabolism 82Rb-18F-FDG PET
Jonathan B. Moody, Keri M. Hiller, Benjamin C. Lee, Alexis Poitrasson-Rivière, James R. Corbett, Richard L. Weinberg, Venkatesh L. Murthy, Edward P. Ficaro
Quantitative 82Rb dynamic pet perfusion analysis with kinetic modeling for myocardial viability: Can we get away with just 82Rb perfusion kinetics?
Karthik Ananthasubramaniam, Parthiban Arumugam
18F-FDG-PET in Finnish patients with clinical suspicion of cardiac sarcoidosis: Female sex and history of atrioventricular block increase the prevalence of positive PET findings
Heikki Tuominen, Atte Haarala, Antti Tikkakoski, Pasi Korkola, Mika Kähönen, Kjell Nikus, Kalle Sipilä
Search for key manifestations to predict inflammation on cardiac PET in suspected cardiac sarcoidosis population
Vasileios Kouranos, Kshama Wechalekar
Assessing time-of-flight signal-to-noise ratio gains within the myocardium and subsequent reductions in administered activity in cardiac PET studies
Ian S. Armstrong, Christine M. Tonge, Parthiban Arumugam
Relationship of non-invasive quantification of myocardial blood flow to arrhythmic events in patients with implantable cardiac defibrillators
Michael Ghannam, Krasimira Mikhova, Hong Jun Yun, John J. Lazarus, Matthew Konerman, Ashraf Saleh, Richard L. Weinberg, Ryan Cunnane, Ravi V. Shah, Keri M. Hiller, Edward P. Ficaro, James R. Corbett, Venkatesh L. Murthy
Noninvasive myocardial blood flow assessment: Another marker of arrhythmic risk?
Alejandro Velasco, Harish Doppalapudi
Prognostic study of cardiac events in Japanese patients with chronic kidney disease using ECG-gated myocardial Perfusion imaging: Final 3-year report of the J-ACCESS 3 study
Satoko Nakamura, Yuhei Kawano, Kenichi Nakajima, Hiroki Hase, Nobuhiko Joki, Tsuguru Hatta, Shigeyuki Nishimura, Masao Moroi, Susumu Nakagawa, Tokuo Kasai, Hideo Kusuoka, Yasuchika Takeishi, Mitsuru Momose, Kazuya Takehana, Mamoru Nanasato, Syunichi Yoda, Hidetaka Nishina, Naoya Matsumoto, Tsunehiko Nishimura
Comparison of CZT SPECT and conventional SPECT for assessment of contractile function, mechanical synchrony and myocardial scar in patients with heart failure
Dayong Wu, Zongyao Zhang, Rongzheng Ma, Feng Guo, Lei Wang, Wei Fang
Coronary circulation: Pressure/flow parameters for assessment of ischemic heart disease
Henry Gewirtz
Early risk stratification using Rubidium-82 positron emission tomography in STEMI patients
Adam Ali Ghotbi, Philip Hasbak, Lars Nepper-Christensen, Jacob Lønborg, Kiril Atharovski, Thomas Christensen, Lene Holmvang, Thomas Engstrøm, Rasmus Sejersten Ripa, Andreas Kjær
Early post-STEMI PET, a judicious investment?
Riemer H. J. A. Slart, Luis Eduardo Juarez-Orozco
FDG PET-CT findings of extra-thoracic sarcoid are associated with cardiac sarcoid: A rationale for using FGD PET-CT for cardiac sarcoid evaluation
Darshan C. Patel, Senthil S. Gunasekaran, Christopher Goettl, Nadera J. Sweiss, Yang Lu
The logic and challenges of imaging sarcoidosis with whole body FDG PET
Roberto C. Valentin, Pradeep Bhambhvani
Accuracy of 99mTc-Hydroxymethylene diphosphonate scintigraphy for diagnosis of transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis
Francesco Cappelli, Chiara Gallini, Carlo Di Mario, Egidio Natalino Costanzo, Luca Vaggelli, Francesca Tutino, Alfonso Ciaccio, Simone Bartolini, Paola Angelotti, Sabrina Frusconi, Silvia Farsetti, Giuseppe Vergaro, Assuero Giorgetti, Paolo Marzullo, Dario Genovesi, Michele Emdin, Federico Perfetto
Interactions between myocardial sympathetic denervation and left ventricular mechanical dyssynchrony: A CZT analysis
Alessia Gimelli, Riccardo Liga, Francesca Menichetti, Ezio Soldati, Maria Grazia Bongiorni, Paolo Marzullo
Phase dyssynchrony and 123I-meta-iodobenzylguanidine innervation imaging towards standardization
Kenichi Nakajima, Koichi Okuda, Hein J. Verberne
Review of cardiovascular imaging in the Journal of Nuclear Cardiology 2018. Part 1 of 2: Positron emission tomography, computed tomography, and magnetic resonance
Wael A. AlJaroudi, Fadi G. Hage
How to achieve patient-centered testing: role of the protocol nurse
Patricia N. Salimi, Joelyn B. Niggel, Friederike K. Keating
Expert protocol teams enhance patient centered cardiac testing and care
R. G. Schwartz, L. Sculli, L. Reinhardt, J. Lacagnina, J. Scheg, M. L. Mackin
Advances in imaging instrumentation for nuclear cardiology
Jae Sung Lee, Gil Kovalski, Tali Sharir, Dong Soo Lee
The tools are ready, are we?
Sang-Geon Cho, Zeenat Jabin, Changho Lee, Henry Hee-Seung Bom
Corrected coronary opacification decrease from coronary computed tomography angiography: Validation with quantitative 13N-ammonia positron emission tomography
Dominik C. Benz, Christoph Gräni, Paola Ferro, Luis Neumeier, Michael Messerli, Mathias Possner, Olivier F. Clerc, Catherine Gebhard, Oliver Gaemperli, Aju P. Pazhenkottil, Philipp A. Kaufmann, Ronny R. Buechel
Anatomy and physiology in coronary artery disease imaging
Filippo Cademartiri, Erica Maffei
Improved diagnosis of the number of stenosed coronary artery vessels by segmentation with scatter and photo-peak window data for attenuation correction in myocardial perfusion SPECT
Yohei Yamauchi, Yumiko Kanzaki, Masuo Hayashi, Mami Arai, Hideaki Morita, Tsuyoshi Komori, Masaaki Hoshiga, Nobukazu Ishizaka
Failure to accurately identify the number of diseased coronary arteries: A weakness of SPECT MPI
Dennis A. Calnon
Effect of liraglutide on myocardial glucose uptake and blood flow in stable chronic heart failure patients: A double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled LIVE sub-study
Roni Nielsen, Anders Jorsal, Peter Iversen, Lars Poulsen Tolbod, Kirsten Bouchelouche, Jens Sørensen, Hendrik Johannes Harms, Allan Flyvbjerg, Lise Tarnow, Caroline Kistorp, Ida Gustafsson, Hans Erik Bøtker, Henrik Wiggers
Is it time to reassess the role of myocardial metabolic modulation for the treatment of heart failure?
John P. Bois, Robert J. Gropler
Coronary calcium score influences referral for invasive coronary angiography after normal myocardial perfusion SPECT
Shu Yokota, Mohamed Mouden, Jan Paul Ottervanger, Elsemiek Engbers, Pieter L. Jager, Jorik R. Timmer, Siert Knollema
Use of coronary artery calcium scanning as a triage for invasive coronary angiography
Roberta Assante, Michele Klain, Wanda Acampa
Incidence of atrioventricular block with vasodilator stress SPECT: A meta-analysis
Efstathia Andrikopoulou, Charity J. Morgan, Lizbeth Brice, Navkaranbir S. Bajaj, Harish Doppalapudi, Ami E. Iskandrian, Fadi G. Hage
Safer stress tests for myocardial perfusion imaging
Sang-Geon Cho, Zeenat Jabin, Henry Hee-Seung Bom
Predictive value of 18F-FDG PET/CT in patients with acute type B aortic intramural hematoma
Fan Yang, Jianfang Luo, Qingyi Hou, Nianjin Xie, Zhiqiang Nie, Wenhui Huang, Yuan Liu, Yingling Zhou, Jiyan Chen, Qingshan Geng
Can FDG-PET imaging play a role in guiding indications to endovascular treatments in patients presenting acute aortic syndromes?
Michael Soussan, Fabien Hyafil
Multi-modality imaging: Bird’s eye view from the 2018 American Heart Association Scientific Sessions
Mouaz H. Al-Mallah, Steven G. Lloyd, Rami Doukky, Wael A. AlJaroudi, Fadi G. Hage
Should positron emission tomography be the standard of care for non-invasive surveillance following cardiac transplantation?
Robert J. H. Miller, Jon A. Kobashigawa, Daniel S. Berman
The need for standardization of nuclear cardiology reporting and data system (NCAD-RADS): Learning from coronary artery disease (CAD), breast imaging (BI), liver imaging (LI), and prostate imaging (PI) RADS
Majid Assadi, Erik Velez, Mohammad Hosein Najafi, Ali Gholamrezanezhad
Coronary microvascular dysfunction in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy detected by Rubidium-82 positron emission tomography and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging
William E. Moody, Matthias Schmitt, Parthiban Arumugam
Anti-inflammatory effect of statin in coronary aneurysms late after Kawasaki disease
Munehisa Bekki, Nobuhiro Tahara, Atsuko Tahara, Akihiro Honda, Sachiyo Igata, Yoichi Sugiyama, Tomohisa Nakamura, Jiahui Sun, Seiji Kurata, Kiminori Fujimoto, Toshi Abe, Hiroyuki Tanaka, Kenji Suda, Yoshihiro Fukumoto
Myocardial perfusion scintigraphy during chest pain: An atypical presentation of takotsubo cardiomyopathy?
Maria Marta Maggiotto Sabra, Fernanda Salomão Costa, Jader Cunha de Azevedo, Claudio Tinoco Mesquita, Hein J. Verberne
Positron emission tomography for diagnosis of prosthetic valve endocarditis
Vidhu Anand, Panithaya Chareonthaitawee, Martin Rodriguez-Porcel
Stress for a stressed out heart: Classic cardiac PET findings in takotsubo cardiomyopathy
Chonyang L. Albert, Khendi T. White, Paul C. Cremer, Wael A. Jaber
Diagnostic performance of FDG-PET/CTA in native mitral valve endocarditis
Shoko Maeda, Nobuhiro Tahara, Fumitake Takase, Munehisa Bekki, Atsuko Tahara, Akihiro Honda, Sachiyo Igata, Yoichi Sugiyama, Tomohisa Nakamura, Jiahui Sun, Seiji Kurata, Kiminori Fujimoto, Toshi Abe, Yoshihiro Fukumoto
Indirect evidence of sympathetic stimulation by regadenoson
G. Ross Farris, Fadi G. Hage, Vineet Kumar, Ami E. Iskandrian
Correction to: The effect of beta blocker withdrawal on adenosine myocardial perfusion imaging
C. Hoffmeister, R. Preuss, R. Weise, W. Burchert, O. Lindner
To the heart of the matter; a valentine’s day to remember
Rob S. B. Beanlands