Ausgabe 5/2021
Inhalt (100 Artikel)
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
Vasvi Singh, Saurabh Malhotra
Cardiovascular disease in the literature: A selection of recent original research papers
Wael A. AlJaroudi, Fadi G. Hage
Diagnostic and prognostic value of Technetium-99m pyrophosphate uptake quantitation for transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis
Robert J. H. Miller, Sebastien Cadet, Darren Mah, Payam Pournazari, Denise Chan, Nowell M. Fine, Daniel S. Berman, Piotr J. Slomka
Transforming ATTR cardiac amyloidosis into a chronic disease: The enormous potential of quantitative SPECT to improve diagnosis, prognosis, and monitoring of disease progression
Michael P. Ayers, Adithya V. Peruri, Jamieson M. Bourque
Clinical significance of corrected relative flow reserve derived from 13N-ammonia positron emission tomography combined with coronary computed tomography angiography
Naoto Kawaguchi, Hideki Okayama, Teruhito Kido, Naoki Fukuyama, Tatsuya Shigematsu, Go Kawamura, Go Hiasa, Yukio Kazatani, Takeshi Inoue, Hitoshi Miki, Masao Miyagawa, Teruhito Mochizuki
Fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography-based textural features for prediction of event prone carotid atherosclerotic plaques
Pavlos P. Kafouris, Iosif P. Koutagiar, Alexandros T. Georgakopoulos, George M. Spyrou, Dimitrios Visvikis, Constantinos D. Anagnostopoulos
Iterative reconstruction incorporating background correction improves quantification of [18F]-NaF PET/CT images of patients with abdominal aortic aneurysm
Mercy I. Akerele, Nicolas A. Karakatsanis, Rachael O. Forsythe, Marc R. Dweck, Maaz Syed, Robert G. Aykroyd, Steven Sourbron, David E. Newby, Charalampos Tsoumpas
Optimizing arterial 18F-sodium fluoride positron emission tomography analysis
Jamie W. Bellinge, Carl J. Schultz
Pretest models for predicting abnormal stress single-photon emission computed tomography myocardial perfusion imaging
Rosario Megna, Roberta Assante, Emilia Zampella, Valeria Gaudieri, Carmela Nappi, Renato Cuocolo, Teresa Mannarino, Andrea Genova, Roberta Green, Valeria Cantoni, Wanda Acampa, Mario Petretta, Alberto Cuocolo
Stress myocardial perfusion imaging: Can we tell the results without doing the test?
T. Sean Dunn II, Fadi G. Hage
Comparison between N13NH3-PET and 99mTc-Tetrofosmin-CZT SPECT in the evaluation of absolute myocardial blood flow and flow reserve
Raffaele Giubbini, Mattia Bertoli, Rexhep Durmo, Mattia Bonacina, Alessia Peli, Ilio Faggiano, Domenico Albano, Elisa Milan, Eli Stern, Barbara Paghera, Carlo Rodella, Elisabetta Cerudelli, Marina Gazzilli, Francesco Dondi, Francesco Bertagna, Luca Camoni
SPECT-derived absolute myocardial perfusion measures: A step in the right direction
Navkaranbir S. Bajaj, Pradeep Bhambhvani
No changes in myocardial perfusion following radiation therapy of left-sided breast cancer: A positron emission tomography study
Thomas Rasmussen, Andreas Kjær, Martin Lyngby Lassen, Anders Navrsted Pedersen, Lena Specht, Marianne C. Aznar, Philip Hasbak
Myocardial perfusion years after radiation therapy for left-sided breast cancer: Normal or abnormal? This is the question
Alberto Aimo, Alessia Gimelli
Temporal relationship between 18F-sodium fluoride uptake in the abdominal aorta and evolution of CT-verified vascular calcification
Takehiro Nakahara, Jagat Narula, Josef J. Fox, Masahiro Jinzaki, H. William Strauss
Serial scanning with 99mTc-3, 3-diphosphono-1, 2-propanodicarboxylic acid (99mTc-DPD) for early detection of cardiac amyloid deposition and prediction of clinical worsening in subjects carrying a transthyretin gene mutation
F. Minutoli, G. Di Bella, A. Mazzeo, R. Laudicella, L. Gentile, M. Russo, G. Vita, S. Baldari
What is the optimal cardiac screening for asymptomatic transthyretin gene mutation carriers?
Sang-Geon Cho, Hyung Yoon Kim, Hee-Seung Bom
Cell proliferation detected using [18F]FLT PET/CT as an early marker of abdominal aortic aneurysm
Richa Gandhi, Christopher Cawthorne, Lucinda J. L. Craggs, John D. Wright, Juozas Domarkas, Ping He, Joanna Koch-Paszkowski, Michael Shires, Andrew F. Scarsbrook, Stephen J. Archibald, Charalampos Tsoumpas, Marc A. Bailey
Imaging cellular activity and proliferation in the aortic wall
Maaz B. J. Syed, Alexander J. Fletcher, Marc R. Dweck
Interaction between the effects of proton pump inhibitors and aspirin on gastric wall sestamibi uptake on myocardial perfusion imaging
David S. Rose, Brittany Robinson, Shanthi Kannan, Joseph C. Lee
The way to the heart is through the stomach; PPI’s, aspirin, and gastric radiotracer activity
Stephen A. Bloom, Randall C. Thompson
Appropriateness of inpatient stress testing: Implications for development of clinical decision support mechanisms and future criteria
Sanjay Divakaran, Avinainder Singh, Ersilia M. DeFilippis, Timothy W. Churchill, Sarah Cuddy, Yin Ge, Ivan K. Ip, Wunan Zhou, Hicham Skali, Viviany R. Taqueti, Sharmila Dorbala, James Spalding, Yanqing Xu, Ramin Khorasani, Marcelo F. Di Carli, Maria A. Yialamas, Ron Blankstein
Using a sledgehammer to crack a nut: The burdensome appropriate use criteria program
Nishant R. Shah, David E. Winchester, Andrew M. Freeman
PAMA New Year’s 2020: Did everything get brought to the party?
Toral R. Patel, Jamieson M. Bourque
Reproducibility and Repeatability of Assessment of Myocardial Light Chain Amyloidosis Burden Using 18F-Florbetapir PET/CT
Ariana Nodoushani, Mohammed Samir El-Sady, Mi-Ae Park, Gloria L. Castilloveitia, Rodney H. Falk, Marcelo F. Di Carli, Marie Foley Kijewski, Sharmila Dorbala
Reproducibility and repeatability of assessment of myocardial light chain amyloidosis burden using 18F-florbetapir PET/CT
Frank S. Prato, Gerald Wisenberg
Cardiovascular 18F-fluoride positron emission tomography-magnetic resonance imaging: A comparison study
Jack P. M. Andrews, Gillian MacNaught, Alastair J. Moss, Mhairi K. Doris, Tania Pawade, Philip D. Adamson, Edwin J. R. van Beek, Christophe Lucatelli, Martin L. Lassen, Philip M. Robson, Zahi A. Fayad, Jacek Kwiecinski, Piotr J. Slomka, Daniel S. Berman, David E. Newby, Marc R. Dweck
Advances in cardiac PET/MR imaging: Facilitating cutting-edge structural and biological phenotyping of the cardiovascular system
Ahmed Tawakol, Georges El Fakhri, Ciprian Catana, David E. Sosnovik
The application of molecular imaging to advance translational research in chronic inflammation
Wunan Zhou, Amit Dey, Grigory Manyak, Meron Teklu, Nidhi Patel, Heather Teague, Nehal N. Mehta
Asystole following Regadenoson administration: Review of literature, risk factors and management
Talal Asif, Katherine Lee Chuy, Saurabh Malhotra
The additional prognostic value of myocardial perfusion SPECT in patients with known coronary artery disease with high exercise capacity
Thais R. Peclat, Ana Carolina do A. H. de Souza, Victor F. Souza, Aline M. K. Nakamoto, Felipe M. Neves, Izabella C. R. Silva, Ronaldo S. L. Lima
Added value of 18F-FDG-PET/CT and cardiac CTA in suspected transcatheter aortic valve endocarditis
Ali R. Wahadat, Wilco Tanis, Laurens E. Swart, Asbjørn Scholtens, Gabriel P. Krestin, Nicolas M. D. A. van Mieghem, Carolina A. M. Schurink, Tycho I. G. van der Spoel, Floris S. van den Brink, Tessel Vossenberg, Riemer H. J. A. Slart, Andor W. J. M. Glaudemans, Jolien W. Roos-Hesselink, Ricardo P. J. Budde
18F-FDG PET/CT and cardiac CTA in transcatheter aortic valve implanted endocarditis: Still at the beginning of a long road
Albert Roque, María Nazarena Pizzi
The additive prognostic value of coronary calcium score (CCS) to single photon emission computed tomography myocardial perfusion imaging (SPECT-MPI)-real world data from a single center
Vinoda Sharma, Lal Mughal, Gerasimos Dimitropoulos, Awais Sheikh, Michael Griffin, Alexandra Moss, Alp Notghi, Manish Pandit, Derek L Connolly, Chetan Varma, Paulus Kirchhof
Myocardial perfusion imaging and coronary calcium score: A marriage made in heaven
Nataliya Pyslar, Rami Doukky
Review of cardiovascular imaging in the Journal of Nuclear Cardiology 2020: positron emission tomography, computed tomography, and magnetic resonance
Wael A. AlJaroudi, Fadi G. Hage
Renal function and cardiac adrenergic impairment in patients affected by heart failure
Fabio Marsico, Stefania Paolillo, Paola Gargiulo, Valentina Parisi, Carmela Nappi, Roberta Assante, Simona Dell’Aversana, Immacolata Esposito, Francesco Renga, Luca Esposito, Luca Bardi, Giuseppe Rengo, Santo Dellegrottaglie, Caterina Marciano, Dario Leosco, Alberto Cuocolo, Pasquale Perrone Filardi
123I-MIBG cardiac sympathetic imaging provides further insight into cardiorenal interactions in systolic heart failure patients
Thomas H. Schindler, Sudhir Jain
Assessing the downstream value of first-line cardiac positron emission tomography (PET) imaging using real world Medicare fee-for-service claims data
Qinli Ma, Gayathri Sridhar, Thomas Power, Abiy Agiro
18F-FMISO PET/CT detects hypoxic lesions of cardiac and extra-cardiac involvement in patients with sarcoidosis
Sho Furuya, Masanao Naya, Osamu Manabe, Kenji Hirata, Hiroshi Ohira, Tadao Aikawa, Kazuhiro Koyanagawa, Keiichi Magota, Ichizo Tsujino, Toshihisa Anzai, Yuji Kuge, Noriko Oyama-Manabe, Kohsuke Kudo, Tohru Shiga, Nagara Tamaki
2020 vision: New insights on hypoxia imaging to assess cardiac and extra-cardiac active inflammatory sarcoidosis
Ronald G. Schwartz, Himabindu Vidula
Uniformity of cardiac 123I-MIBG uptake on SPECT images in older adults with normal cognition and patients with dementia
Gemma Roberts, Jim J. Lloyd, Elizabeth Jefferson, Joseph P. M. Kane, Rory Durcan, Sarah Lawley, George S. Petrides, Kim Howe, Iftikhar Haq, John T. O’Brien, Alan J. Thomas
Myocardial Sympathetic Innervation Imaging with MIBG in Dementia with Lewy Bodies
Gagandeep Choudhary, Pradeep Bhambhvani
Stress testing and myocardial perfusion imaging for patients after recovery from severe COVID-19 infection requiring hospitalization: A single-center experience
Usman A. Hasnie, Riem Hawi, Efstathia Andrikopoulou, Ami E. Iskandrian, Fadi G. Hage
Mechanical dyssynchrony: How do we measure it, what it means, and what we can do about it
Marat Fudim, Frederik Dalgaard, Mouhammad Fathallah, Ami E. Iskandrian, Salvator Borges-Neto
Novel dietary protocol prior to 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography to evaluate for cardiac sarcoidosis
Erika Hutt, Wael A. Jaber, Christine Jellis, Maria M. Mountis, Paul C. Cremer
Assessing the qualitative and quantitative impacts of simple two-class vs multiple tissue-class MR-based attenuation correction for cardiac PET/MR
Philip M. Robson, Vittoria Vergani, Thomas Benkert, Maria Giovanna Trivieri, Nicolas A. Karakatsanis, Ronan Abgral, Marc R. Dweck, Pedro R. Moreno, Jason C. Kovacic, Kai Tobias Block, Zahi A. Fayad
Cardiac PET/MR: Are sophisticated attenuation correction techniques necessary for clinical routine assessments?
Martin Lyngby Lassen, Piotr J. Slomka
Changes in microarchitecture of atherosclerotic calcification assessed by 18F-NaF PET and CT after a progressive exercise regimen in hyperlipidemic mice
Jeffrey J. Hsu, Felicia Fong, Radha Patel, Rong Qiao, Karen Lo, Akrivoula Soundia, Chih-Chiang Chang, Victoria Le, Chi-Hong Tseng, Linda L. Demer, Yin Tintut
Coronary artery calcification: More than meets the eye
Xianxi Huang, Jessica D’Addabbo, Patricia K. Nguyen
Diagnostic performance of quantitative and qualitative parameters for the diagnosis of aortic graft infection using [18F]-FDG PET/CT
Ingo Einspieler, Victor Mergen, Heiko Wendorff, Bernhard Haller, Matthias Eiber, Markus Schwaiger, Stephan G. Nekolla, Mona Mustafa
Diagnostic performance and image interpretation of 18F-FDG PET/CT in aortic graft infection: Two sides of the same coin
Giorgio Treglia, Riemer H. J. A. Slart, Andor W. J. M. Glaudemans
Assessment of cardiac tumors by 18F-FDG PET/CT imaging: Histological correlation and clinical outcomes
Jingjing Meng, Honglei Zhao, Yongmin Liu, Dong Chen, Marcus Hacker, Yongxiang Wei, Xiang Li, Xiaoli Zhang, Michael C. Kreissl
Vascular uptake on 18F-sodium fluoride positron emission tomography: precursor of vascular calcification?
Annemarie M. den Harder, Jelmer M. Wolterink, Jonas W. Bartstra, Wilko Spiering, Sabine R. Zwakenberg, Joline W. Beulens, Riemer H. J. A. Slart, Gert Luurtsema, Willem P. Mali, Pim A. de Jong
18F-sodium fluoride and vascular calcification: Some like it hot
Valeria Gaudieri, Emilia Zampella, Adriana D’Antonio, Alberto Cuocolo
Normal imaging findings after aortic valve implantation on 18F-Fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography with computed tomography
Ali R. Wahadat, Wilco Tanis, Asbjørn M. Scholtens, Margreet Bekker, Laura H. Graven, Laurens E. Swart, Annemarie M. den Harder, Marnix G. E. H. Lam, Linda M. de Heer, Jolien W. Roos-Hesselink, Ricardo P. J. Budde
Revisiting the relevance of the 3-month safety period in the evaluation of prosthetic valve endocarditis with FDG-PET/CT
Daniel Juneau, Matthieu Pelletier-Galarneau
Prospect of positron emission tomography for abdominal aortic aneurysm risk stratification
Richa Gandhi, Michael Bell, Marc Bailey, Charalampos Tsoumpas
Adding value to myocardial perfusion scintigraphy: A prediction tool to predict adverse cardiac outcomes and risk stratify
Ricardo A. Nieves, Syed Bukhari, Matthew E. Harinstein
Validation of multiparametric rubidium-82 PET myocardial blood flow quantification for cardiac allograft vasculopathy surveillance
Sharon Chih, Aun Yeong Chong, Jordan Bernick, George A. Wells, Robert A. deKemp, Ross A. Davies, Ellamae Stadnick, Derek Y. So, Christopher Overgaard, Lisa M. Mielniczuk, Rob S. B. Beanlands
A new cardiac phantom for dynamic SPECT
A. Krakovich, U. Zaretsky, I. Moalem, A. Naimushin, E. Rozen, M. Scheinowitz, R. Goldkorn
Added value of myocardial blood flow using 18F-flurpiridaz PET to diagnose coronary artery disease: The flurpiridaz 301 trial
Jonathan B. Moody, Alexis Poitrasson-Rivière, Tomoe Hagio, Christopher Buckley, Richard L. Weinberg, James R. Corbett, Venkatesh L. Murthy, Edward P. Ficaro
Myocardial viability with chronic total occlusion assessed by hybrid positron emission tomography/magnetic resonance imaging
Takatoyo Kiko, Tetsuro Yokokawa, Tomofumi Misaka, Atsuro Masuda, Akiomi Yoshihisa, Takayoshi Yamaki, Hiroyuki Kunii, Kazuhiko Nakazato, Yasuchika Takeishi
Hybrid Positron emission tomography/magnetic resonance imaging in viability assessment
Jeroen J. Bax, Arnold C. T. Ng, Victoria Delgado
18F-FDG PET imaging-monitored anti-inflammatory therapy for acute myocardial infarction: Exploring the role of MCC950 in murine model
Xiang Li, Weidong Yang, Wenhui Ma, Xiang Zhou, Zhiyong Quan, Guoquan Li, Daliang Liu, Qingju Zhang, Dong Han, Beilei Gao, Congye Li, Jing Wang, Fei Kang
18F-FDG PET imaging of myocardial inflammation and viability following experimental infarction and anti-inflammatory treatment with compound MCC950
Jeremy Jong, René R. Sevag Packard
Correction to: Localization of myocardial FDG uptake for prognostic risk stratification in corticosteroid-naïve cardiac sarcoidosis
Munehisa Bekki, Nobuhiro Tahara, Atsuko Tahara, Yoichi Sugiyama, Shoko Maeda-Ogata, Akihiro Honda, Sachiyo Igata, Mika Enomoto, Tatsuyuki Kakuma, Hayato Kaida, Toshi Abe, Yoshihiro Fukumoto
Cases from a busy nuclear cardiology laboratory
Nicolas Ruiz, Pradeep Bhambhvani, Ami E. Iskandrian, Fadi G. Hage
Coronary microvascular dysfunction post acute myocardial infarction
Camil Succar, Ali Zgheib, Habib A. Dakik
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy incidentally detected by 99mTc-HAS-D scintigraphy
Takashi Norikane, Yuka Yamamoto, Fujimoto Kengo, Yasukage Takami, Katsuya Mitamura, Takahisa Noma, Yoshihiro Nishiyama
Proliferation PET tracer 11C-4DST PET/CT depicts hibernating myocardium
Ryogo Minamimoto, Kazuhiko Nakajima, Osamu Okazaki
Increased lung signal as a hint of COVID-19 infection on Tc-99m-sestamibi myocardial perfusion scintigraphy
Pierre Delabie, Fabien Hyafil
18F-FDG PET/CT identifying cardiac abscess formation prior to cardiac CT
Melissa J. M. Cheng, Anver Sethwala, Nathan Better, Dinesh Sivaratnam
A positive Tc-99m PYP scan in a patient with cardiac sarcoidosis
K. Carlos El-Tallawi, Roosha Parikh, Faisal Nabi, Paulyann I. Maclayton, Barry H. Trachtenberg, Mouaz Al-Mallah
A potential pitfall in the use of 99mTc-PYP imaging for diagnosing cardiac ATTR amyloidosis
Christopher S. G. Murray, Renee M. Moadel, James M. Tauras, Edgar Zamora, Mark I. Travin
The complementary nature of multimodal imaging in the management of an anomalous aortic origin of the right coronary artery from the left coronary cusp
Lalitha C. Medepalli, Vidya M. Medepalli, Timothy A. Scully
Left ventricular thrombus on 18F-FDG and 18F-FLT PET/CT in a patient with cardiac sarcoidosis
Takashi Norikane, Katsuya Mitamura, Kengo Fujimoto, Yasukage Takami, Yuka Yamamoto, Yoshihiro Nishiyama
Focal myocardial perfusion abnormalities in cardiac amyloidosis as compared with CMR, bone scintigraphy, and 11C-PiB PET
Toshiya Ensako, Takashi Norikane, Yuka Yamamoto, Yasukage Takami, Katsuya Mitamura, Yukito Maeda, Takahisa Noma, Yoshihiro Nishiyama
“False-positive” Myocardial Perfusion Scan in a patient presenting with sickle cell crisis
Harsh V. Thakkar, Melissa Cheng, Nathan Better
Tricked by transient ischemic dilation: A case of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
Nicole Pristera, Ajay Bhargava
Correction to: Does quantification of [11C]meta-hydroxyephedrine and [13N]ammonia kinetics improve risk stratification in ischemic cardiomyopathy
Jean Z. Wang, Jason G. E. Zelt, Nicole Kaps, Aaryn Lavallee, Jennifer M. Renaud, Benjamin Rotstein, Rob S. B. Beanlands, James A. Fallavollita, John M. Canty Jr., Robert A. deKemp
Sources of error with cardiovascular PET/CT and PET/MRI and questions to be answered to achieve clinical usefulness
Poul F. Høilund-Carlsen, Oke Gerke
PET/CT for endocarditis in the ACC/AHA 2020 valve guidelines: Ready for prime time?
Wael A. Jaber, Tom Kai Ming Wang, Paul C. Cremer
Tc-99m HMDP versus MDP discrepancy in cardiac amyloidosis
Joseph C. Lee, Nathan Better
Abstracts of Original Contributions ASNC2021 The 26th Annual Scientific Session of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology
ASNC Statements of Principles on the Issue of Multimodality Imaging
Randall C. Thompson, Dennis A. Calnon, Donna M. Polk, Mouaz H. Al-Mallah, Lawrence M. Phillips, Sharmila Dorbala, Robert S. B. Beanlands