Issue 6/2017
Content (49 Articles)
A quick glance at selected topics in this issue
Pradeep Bhambhvani, Fadi G. Hage, Ami E. Iskandrian
Nuclear cardiology in the literature: A selection of recent, original research papers
Saurabh Malhotra, Prem Soman
Cardiovascular disease in the literature: A selection of recent original research papers
Fadi G. Hage, Wael AlJaroudi
What is This Image? 2017: Image 4
What is this image? 2017: image 3 result
Hena Patel, Kim Allan Williams Sr., Karolina Marinescu
George De Hevesy, Recipient of the 1943 Nobel Prize for Chemistry
H. William Strauss, Barry Zaret, Pierluigi Pieri, Avijit Lahiri
Current status of stress myocardial perfusion imaging pharmaceuticals and radiation exposure in Japan: Results from a nationwide survey
Ryuto Otsuka, Narumi Kubo, Yosuke Miyazaki, Mio Kawahara, Jun Takaesu, Kazuki Fukuchi
Reducing radiation exposure from nuclear myocardial perfusion imaging: Time to act is now
Ankur Gupta, Navkaranbir S. Bajaj
Incidental extra-cardiac findings on 13N-ammonia myocardial perfusion PET/CT
H. Kan, F. M. van der Zant, M. Wondergem, R. J. J. Knol
Reducing radiation to patients and improving image quality in a real-world nuclear cardiology laboratory
Stephen A. Bloom, Karen Meyers
The Private Practice Corner: A new column in the Journal of Nuclear Cardiology
Andrew J. Einstein, Randall C. Thompson
Guidelines in review: Comparison between AHA/ACC and ESC guidelines for the management of patients with ventricular arrhythmias and the prevention of sudden cardiac death
Alejandro Velasco, Jim Stirrup, Eliana Reyes, Fadi G. Hage
Erratum to: Guidelines in review: Comparison between AHA/ACC and ESC guidelines for the management of patients with ventricular arrhythmias and the prevention of sudden cardiac death
Alejandro Velasco, Jim Stirrup, Eliana Reyes, Fadi G. Hage
American perspective: Comparing the AHA/ACC and ESC guidelines for the management of patients with ventricular arrhythmias and the prevention of sudden cardiac death
Saurabh Malhotra, John M. Canty Jr.
The radiation dose to overweighted patients undergoing myocardial perfusion SPECT can be significantly reduced: validation of a linear weight-adjusted activity administration protocol
Jenny Oddstig, Cecilia Hindorf, Fredrik Hedeer, Jonas Jögi, Håkan Arheden, Magnus J. Hansson, Henrik Engblom
It’s about time we think about lowering radiation dose in obese patients too
Daniel A Kim, Mary Beth Farrell, Scott D. Jerome
Adaptive servo-ventilation therapy improves cardiac sympathetic nerve activity, cardiac function, exercise capacity, and symptom in patients with chronic heart failure and Cheyne-Stokes respiration
Takuji Toyama, Hiroshi Hoshizaki, Shu Kasama, Yusuke Miyaishi, Hakuken Kan, Eiji Yamashita, Ren Kawaguti, Hitoshi Adachi, Shigeru Ohsima
Sympathetic nervous system, systolic heart failure, and central sleep apnea: Are we about to find the missing link?
Olivier Lairez, Damien Legallois, Denis Agostini
Respiratory gating in cardiac PET: Effects of adenosine and dipyridamole
Martin Lyngby Lassen, Thomas Rasmussen, Thomas E. Christensen, Andreas Kjær, Philip Hasbak
PET should replace SPECT in cardiac imaging for diagnosis and risk assessment of patients with known or suspected CAD: Pro
Jamshid Maddahi, René R. Sevag Packard
PET should not replace routine SPECT MPS for the assessment of patients with known or suspected CAD
James E. Stirrup, S. Richard Underwood
Prognostic significance of blood pressure response during vasodilator stress Rb-82 positron emission tomography myocardial perfusion imaging
Bradley Witbrodt, Abhinav Goyal, Anita A. Kelkar, Sharmila Dorbala, Benjamin J. W. Chow, Marcelo F. Di Carli, Brent A. Williams, Michael E. Merhige, Daniel S. Berman, Guido Germano, Robert S. Beanlands, James K. Min, Punitha Arasaratnam, Masoud Sadreddini, Marjolein Lidwine van Velthuijsen, Leslee J. Shaw
The blood pressure response to vasodilator stress does not provide independent prognostic information
Eliana Reyes, Fadi G. Hage
Effects of an endothelin receptor antagonist, Macitentan, on right ventricular substrate utilization and function in a Sugen 5416/hypoxia rat model of severe pulmonary arterial hypertension
Katarzyna Drozd, Ali Ahmadi, Yupu Deng, Baohua Jiang, Julia Petryk, Stephanie Thorn, Duncan Stewart, Rob Beanlands, Robert A. deKemp, Jean N. DaSilva, Lisa M. Mielniczuk
Assessment of right ventricular metabolism: An emerging tool for monitoring pulmonary artery hypertension
Attila Feher, Albert J. Sinusas
Design and interpretation of non-inferiority studies: A clinician’s perspective
Todd M. Brown
Quantifying predictive accuracy in survival models
Seth T. Lirette, Inmaculada Aban
Chest pain triage: Current trends in the emergency departments in the United States
Matthew C. DeLaney, Matthew Neth, Jared J. Thomas
Imaging for chest pain in the emergency room: Finding the right gate not the right gatekeeper
David G. Wolinsky
F-18 sodium fluoride PET/CT does not effectively image myocardial inflammation due to suspected cardiac sarcoidosis
Richard L. Weinberg, Rachelle Morgenstern, Albert DeLuca, Jennifer Chen, Sabahat Bokhari
Regadenoson-induced complete heart block and asystole: A real possibility nuclear laboratories should be aware of
Faraz Kureshi, Mouin S. Abdallah, Timothy M. Bateman
PET-CT evaluation of amyloid systemic involvement with [18F]-florbetaben in patient with proved cardiac amyloidosis: a case report
Dario Genovesi, Giuseppe Vergaro, Michele Emdin, Assuero Giorgetti, Paolo Marzullo
A tale of two diagnoses: The role of noninvasive cardiovascular imaging to differentiate cardiac amyloidosis
David Kassop, Jason J. Nam, Brennan R. Cebula, Palak Shah, Ron Blankstein, Rodney H. Falk, Edward A. Hulten
A Shifting Pacemaker: Artifact or Ischemia?
Andrew E. Noll, Serge C. Harb, Wael A. Jaber
Cardiac metastasis of clear cell thyroid cancer
Juan Martínez-Milla, Marcelino Cortés, José Ignacio Lara, Marta Tomás, Jerónimo Farre
ACC/AATS/AHA/ASE/ASNC/HRS/SCAI/SCCT/SCMR/STS 2017 Appropriate Use Criteria for Multimodality Imaging in Valvular Heart Disease
John U. Doherty, Smadar Kort, Roxana Mehran, Paul Schoenhagen, Prem Soman, Greg J. Dehmer, John U. Doherty, Paul Schoenhagen, Zahid Amin, Thomas M. Bashore, Andrew Boyle, Dennis A. Calnon, Blase Carabello, Manuel D. Cerqueira, John Conte, Milind Desai, Daniel Edmundowicz, Victor A. Ferrari, Brian Ghoshhajra, Praveen Mehrotra, Saman Nazarian, T. Brett Reece, Balaji Tamarappoo, Wendy S. Tzou, John B. Wong, John U. Doherty, Gregory J. Dehmer, Steven R. Bailey, Nicole M. Bhave, Alan S. Brown, Stacie L. Daugherty, Larry S. Dean, Milind Y. Desai, Claire S. Duvernoy, Linda D. Gillam, Robert C. Hendel, Christopher M. Kramer, Bruce D. Lindsay, Warren J. Manning, Praveen Mehrotra, Manesh R. Patel, Ritu Sachdeva, L. Samuel Wann, David E. Winchester, Michael J. Wolk, Joseph M. Allen
ASNC imaging guidelines for nuclear cardiology procedures
Peter L. Tilkemeier, Jamieson Bourque, Rami Doukky, Rupa Sanghani, Richard L. Weinberg
Patient-specific activity or scan-time in SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging: A hands-on approach
J. D. van Dijk, P. L. Jager, J. A. van Dalen
Nuclear cardiology practice in Spain
Amelia Jimenez-Heffernan, Santiago Aguade-Bruix, Irene Casans-Tormo
Responsible growth of nuclear cardiology in Spain
Maria João Ferreira, Manuel D. Cerqueira