Ausgabe 5/2022
Inhalt (102 Artikel)
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
Richard L. Weinberg, Saurabh Malhotra
Correction to: JNC awards
What is this image? 2022 image 2 result: Right atrial angiosarcoma detected with 13N-NH3 myocardial PET/CT and 18F-FDG PET/CT
Han-Xiang Liang, Yue-Long Yang, Jing-Yun Ren, Zhi Xie, Qing Zhang, En-Tao Liu, Shu-Xia Wang
What is This Image? 2022: Image 3
Myocardial flow reserve estimation with contemporary CZT-SPECT and 99mTc-tracers lacks precision for routine clinical application
Jennifer M. Renaud, Alexis Poitrasson-Rivière, Tomoe Hagio, Jonathan B. Moody, Liliana Arida-Moody, Edward P. Ficaro, Venkatesh L. Murthy
Myocardial perfusion recovery induced by an α-calcitonin gene-related peptide analogue
Simon Bentsen, Anette Sams, Philip Hasbak, Lars Edvinsson, Andreas Kjaer, Rasmus S. Ripa
Calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP)-induced recovery after myocardial infarction: Is there a role for CGRP-targeted molecular image-guided strategies in cardiology?
Rudolf A. Werner, Takahiro Higuchi
13N-ammonia positron emission tomography-derived endocardial strain for the assessment of ischemia using feature-tracking in high-resolution cine imaging
Masateru Kawakubo, Michinobu Nagao, Atsushi Yamamoto, Risako Nakao, Yuka Matsuo, Kenji Fukushim, Eri Watanabe, Akiko Sakai, Masayuki Sasaki, Shuji Sakai
Left ventricular strain analysis by positron emission tomography: Beyond myocardial perfusion
Letizia Spinelli
18F-FDG PET/CT improves diagnostic certainty in native and prosthetic valve Infective Endocarditis over the modified Duke Criteria
Christopher P. Primus, Thomas A Clay, Maria S. McCue, Kit Wong, Rakesh Uppal, Shirish Ambekar, Satya Das, Sanjeev Bhattacharyya, L. Ceri Davies, Simon Woldman, Leon J. Menezes
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
Cardiac sarcoidosis: Advantages and limitations of advanced cardiac imaging
Sabahat Bokhari, Tarick Sheikh
Transient ischemic dilation or transient RV visualization in patients with normal SPECT stress myocardial perfusion imaging: Correlation with CT coronary artery calcium scoring and coronary angiography
Behshad Naghshtabrizi, Maryam Alvandi, Zahra Shaghaghi, Seyed Kamaledin Hadei, Farnaz Fariba, Mehdi Moradi, Mohammad Ali Seif Rabie
99mTechnetium-pyrophosphate cardiac scintigraphy cases from a busy nuclear cardiology laboratory
Korosh Sharain, Andrew Homb, Panithaya Chareonthaitawee, Omar F. AbouEzzeddine
Potential novel imaging targets of inflammation in cardiac sarcoidosis
Jakob Park, Bryan D. Young, Edward J. Miller
New criteria for the diagnosis of infective endocarditis using 18F-FDG PET/CT imaging
Maria Gazzilli, Domenico Albano, Silvia Lucchini, Alessia Peli, Elisabetta Cerudelli, Francesco Bertagna, Raffaele Giubbini
Response to JNC-22-024-LE
Maria Gazzilli, Domenico Albano, Silvia Lucchini, Alessia Peli, Elisabetta Cerudelli, Francesco Bertagna, Raffaele Giubbini
Polarity status of trigger signal during ECG-gating affects parameters of LV function in gated myocardial perfusion SPECT
Mohsen Qutbi, Mehdi Soltanshahi, Farideh FarokhiMoghadam, Fahime Lamei Ramandi, Fatemeh Kaghazchi, Reyhane Ahmadi
Determination of [N-13]-ammonia extraction fraction in patients with coronary artery disease by calibration to invasive coronary and fractional flow reserve
Jonathon A. Nye, Marina Piccinelli, Doyeon Hwang, C. David Cooke, Jin Chul Paeng, Joo Myung Lee, Sang-Geon Cho, Russell Folks, Michael Haber, Hee-Seung Bom, Bon-Kwon Koo, Ernest V. Garcia
Cardiac 123I-mIBG scintigraphy for prediction of catheter ablation outcome in patients with atrial fibrillation
S. I. Sazonova, J. V. Varlamova, N. A. Nikitin, S. M. Minin, I. V. Kisteneva, R. E. Batalov, A. I. Mishkina, Y. N. Ilushenkova, K. V. Zavadovsky, S. V. Popov, A. B. Romanov
CT-free attenuation correction for dedicated cardiac SPECT using a 3D dual squeeze-and-excitation residual dense network
Xiongchao Chen, Bo Zhou, Luyao Shi, Hui Liu, Yulei Pang, Rui Wang, Edward J. Miller, Albert J. Sinusas, Chi Liu
Artificial intelligence-based attenuation correction; closer to clinical reality?
Robert J. H. Miller, Piotr J. Slomka
Imaging of cardiac fibroblast activation in a patient after acute myocardial infarction using 68Ga-FAPI-04
Susan Notohamiprodjo, Stephan G. Nekolla, Stephanie Robu, Alberto Villagran Asiares, Christian Kupatt, Tareq Ibrahim, Karl-Ludwig Laugwitz, Marcus R. Makowski, Markus Schwaiger, Wolfgang A. Weber, Zohreh Varasteh
Impact of residual subtraction on myocardial blood flow and reserve estimates from rapid dynamic PET protocols
Alexis Poitrasson-Rivière, Jonathan B. Moody, Jennifer M. Renaud, Tomoe Hagio, Liliana Arida-Moody, Christopher Buckley, Richard L. Weinberg, Edward P. Ficaro, Venkatesh L. Murthy
Accounting for residual activity in the estimate of myocardial blood flow with PET
Jonathon A. Nye, C. David Cooke
MIBG cardiac imaging compared to ejection fraction in evaluation of cardiotoxicity: a systematic review
Thaís Rossato Arrais, Germano Dallegrave Cavalli, Bárbara Tietbohl dos Santos, Gabriela Bartzen Pereira, Celina Borges Migliavaca, Gabriel Blacher Grossman, Andréia Biolo
Functional innervation imaging in the evaluation of cardiotoxicity: Just the beginning of the journey
Matteo Bauckneht, Gianmario Sambuceti
Diagnostic safety of a machine learning-based automatic patient selection algorithm for stress-only myocardial perfusion SPECT
Evann Eisenberg, Robert J. H. Miller, Lien-Hsin Hu, Richard Rios, Julian Betancur, Peyman Azadani, Donghee Han, Tali Sharir, Andrew J. Einstein, Sabahat Bokhari, Mathews B. Fish, Terrence D. Ruddy, Philipp A. Kaufmann, Albert J. Sinusas, Edward J. Miller, Timothy M. Bateman, Sharmila Dorbala, Marcelo Di Carli, Joanna X. Liang, Yuka Otaki, Balaji K. Tamarappoo, Damini Dey, Daniel S. Berman, Piotr J. Slomka
Can we REFINE stress-only SPECT MPI protocols using machine learning?
Mohamed Y. Elwazir, Panithaya Chareonthaitawee
Integration of quantitative absolute myocardial blood flow estimates from dynamic CZT-SPECT improves the detection of coronary artery disease
Fang-Shin Liu, Shan-Ying Wang, Yu-Chien Shiau, Yen-Wen Wu
High technology by CZT cameras: It is time to join forces
Adriana D’Antonio, Roberta Assante, Emilia Zampella, Wanda Acampa
Effects of mineralocorticoid receptor antagonist eplerenone on cardiac sympathetic nerve activity and left ventricular remodeling after reperfusion therapy in patients with first ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction
Kazuyoshi Toda, Shu Kasama, Takuji Toyama, Masato Kasahara, Masahiko Kurabayashi
Use of mineralocorticoid receptor antagonist in ST elevation myocardial infarction
Muhammad H. Khan, Myron C. Gerson
Improving detection accuracy of perfusion defect in standard dose SPECT-myocardial perfusion imaging by deep-learning denoising
Junchi Liu, Yongyi Yang, Miles N. Wernick, P. Hendrik Pretorius, Piotr J. Slomka, Michael A. King
The assessment of left ventricular mechanical dyssynchrony from gated 99mTc-tetrofosmin SPECT and gated 18F-FDG PET by QGS: a comparative study
Sebastian Lehner, Frank Philipp Graner, Maximilian Fischer, Harun Ilhan, Peter Bartenstein, Andrei Todica
Diagnosis of left ventricular hypertrophy using non-ECG-gated 15O-water PET
Jens Sörensen, Jonny Nordström, Tomasz Baron, Stellan Mörner, Sven-Olof Granstam, Mark Lubberink, Lars Tolbod, Jeffrey van den Berg, Frank A. Flachskampf, Tanja Kero, Peter Magnusson, Hendrik J. Harms
Added value to stress myocardial perfusion imaging studies with measurement of left ventricular mass
Anahita N. Tavoosi, Yoshito Kadoya, Terrence D. Ruddy
Diagnostic challenges in primary cardiac lymphoma, the opportunity of 18F-FDG PET/CT integrated with contrast-enhanced CT
Entao Liu, Jia Huang, Haojian Dong, Zerui Chen, Chao Liu, Qiu Xie, Weiping Xu, Shuxia Wang, Zaiyi Liu
Contrast-enhanced 18F-FDG PET/CT to differentiate primary cardiac lymphoma from primary cardiac angiosarcoma
Luca Camoni, Domenico Albano
Machine learning to predict abnormal myocardial perfusion from pre-test features
Robert J. H. Miller, M. Timothy Hauser, Tali Sharir, Andrew J. Einstein, Mathews B. Fish, Terrence D. Ruddy, Philipp A. Kaufmann, Albert J. Sinusas, Edward J. Miller, Timothy M. Bateman, Sharmila Dorbala, Marcelo Di Carli, Cathleen Huang, Joanna X. Liang, Donghee Han, Damini Dey, Daniel S. Berman, Piotr J. Slomka
Efficacy and safety of cardiac shock wave therapy for patients with severe coronary artery disease: A randomized, double-blind control study
Na Jia, Ruisheng Zhang, Baoyi Liu, Bing Liu, Xin Qi, Ming Lan, Junmeng Liu, Ping Zeng, Congxia Chen, Wenchan Li, Yue Guo, Zhiming Yao, Qing He
Is Cardiac Shock Wave Therapy an Option for the Treatment of Myocardial Ischemia in Patients with Refractory Angina?
Francesco Nudi, Fabrizio Tomai
Effect of respiratory motion correction and CT-based attenuation correction on dual-gated cardiac PET image quality and quantification
Jussi Schultz, Reetta Siekkinen, Mojtaba Jafari Tadi, Mika Teräs, Riku Klén, Eero Lehtonen, Antti Saraste, Jarmo Teuho
Combining body mass index with waist circumference to assess coronary microvascular function in patients with non-obstructive coronary artery disease
Ruonan Wang, Xiang Li, Shihao Huangfu, Qi Yao, Ping Wu, Zhifang Wu, Li Li, Yuetao Wang, Minfu Yang, Marcus Hacker, Haitao Zhou, Rui Yan, Sijin Li
On the relationship between coronary microvascular disease and obesity
Matthieu Pelletier-Galarneau, Daniel Juneau
Added value of coronary artery calcium score in the reporting of SPECT versus PET myocardial perfusion imaging
M. Mouden, P. L. Jager, J. A. van Dalen, J. D. van Dijk
Myocardial perfusion imaging and CAC score: Not only a brick in the wall
Emilia Zampella, Roberta Assante, Wanda Acampa
The prognostic value of positron emission tomography in the evaluation of suspected cardiac sarcoidosis
Vaiibhav N. Patel, Justin A. Pieper, Alexis Poitrasson-Rivière, David Kopin, Thomas Cascino, Keith Aaronson, Venkatesh L. Murthy, Todd Koelling
FDG PET imaging in suspected cardiac sarcoidosis: diagnosis vs. prognosis
Sanjay Divakaran, Ron Blankstein
Invasive evaluation of coronary microvascular dysfunction
Alejandro Travieso, Adrian Jeronimo-Baza, Daniel Faria, Asad Shabbir, Hernan Mejia-Rentería, Javier Escaned
SPECT/CT imaging of inflammation and calcification in human carotid atherosclerosis to identify the plaque at risk of rupture
K. Van der Heiden, H. E. Barrett, E. J. Meester, K. van Gaalen, B. J. Krenning, F. J. Beekman, E. de Blois, J. de Swart, H. J. M. Verhagen, A. van der Lugt, J. P. Norenberg, M. de Jong, M. R. Bernsen, F. J. H. Gijsen
Feasibility and application of trimetazidine in 18F-FDG PET myocardial metabolic imaging of diabetic mellitus patients with severe coronary artery disease: A prospective, self-controlled study
Xiaoliang Shao, Yuqi Chen, Yongjun Chen, Feifei Zhang, Mingge Zhou, Rong Niu, Yuetao Wang
Opportunities to improve image quality in PET myocardial viability imaging in diabetics
Brett W. Sperry
Quantitative myocardial perfusion SPECT/CT for the assessment of myocardial tracer uptake in patients with three-vessel coronary artery disease: Initial experiences and results
Sebastian Lehner, Isabel Nowak, Mathias Zacherl, Julia Brosch-Lenz, Maximilian Fischer, Harun Ilhan, Johannes Rübenthaler, Astrid Gosewisch, Peter Bartenstein, Andrei Todica
Prognostic value of heart rate reserve in patients with suspected coronary artery disease undergoing stress myocardial perfusion imaging
Carmela Nappi, Mario Petretta, Roberta Assante, Emilia Zampella, Valeria Gaudieri, Valeria Cantoni, Roberta Green, Fabio Volpe, Leandra Piscopo, Ciro Gabriele Mainolfi, Emanuele Nicolai, Wanda Acampa, Alberto Cuocolo
“Global” cardiac atherosclerotic burden assessed by artificial intelligence-based versus manual segmentation in 18F-sodium fluoride PET/CT scans: Head-to-head comparison
Reza Piri, Lars Edenbrandt, Måns Larsson, Olof Enqvist, Sofie Skovrup, Kasper Karmark Iversen, Babak Saboury, Abass Alavi, Oke Gerke, Poul Flemming Høilund-Carlsen
Artificial intelligence-based quantification of cardiac 18F-sodium fluoride uptake
Jacek Kwiecinski, Marc R. Dweck
One-tissue compartment model for myocardial perfusion quantification with N-13 ammonia PET provides matching results: A cross-comparison between Carimas, FlowQuant, and PMOD
Sergey V. Nesterov, Roberto Sciagrà, Luis Eduardo Juarez Orozco, John O. Prior, Leonardo Settimo, Chunlei Han, Emmanuel Deshayes, Robert A. deKemp, Darja V. Ryzhkova, Kilem L. Gwet, Juhani M. Knuuti
Prognostic value of myocardial flow reserve obtained by 82-rubidium positron emission tomography in long-term follow-up after heart transplantation
Lærke Marie Nelson, Thomas Emil Christensen, Kasper Rossing, Philip Hasbak, Finn Gustafsson
Clinical impacts of scar reduction on gated myocardial perfusion SPECT after cardiac resynchronization therapy
Chi-Yen Wang, Guang-Uei Hung, Hsu-Chung Lo, Shih-Chuan Tsai, Zhuo He, Xinwei Zhang, Kuo-Feng Chiang, Jiangang Zou, Weihua Zhou, Jin-Long Huang, Shih-Ann Chen
Myocardial scar reduction after cardiac resynchronization therapy assessed by gated myocardial perfusion SPECT
Naoya Matsumoto, Yasuyuki Suzuki, Yasuo Okumura
Clinical implications of compromised 82Rb PET data acquisition
Andrew Van Tosh, J. Jane Cao, John R. Votaw, C. David Cooke, Christopher J. Palestro, Kenneth J. Nichols
Serial changes of myocardial perfusion imaging in takotsubo and reverse takotsubo cardiomyopathy
Keisuke Miyajima, Kei Tawarahara, Norihito Saito
Effect of iterations and time of flight on normal distributions of 82Rb PET relative perfusion and myocardial blood flow
Alexis Poitrasson-Rivière, Jonathan B. Moody, Jennifer M. Renaud, Tomoe Hagio, Liliana Arida-Moody, Venkatesh L. Murthy, Edward P. Ficaro
Effect of changes in perfusion defect size during serial stress myocardial perfusion imaging on cardiovascular outcomes in patients treated with primary percutaneous coronary intervention after myocardial infarction
Emilia Zampella, Teresa Mannarino, Valeria Gaudieri, Adriana D’Antonio, Francesco Giallauria, Roberta Assante, Valeria Cantoni, Roberta Green, Ciro Gabriele Mainolfi, Carmela Nappi, Andrea Genova, Mario Petretta, Alberto Cuocolo, Wanda Acampa
Predictive values of left ventricular mechanical dyssynchrony for CRT response in heart failure patients with different pathophysiology
Zhuo He, Dianfu Li, Chang Cui, Hui-yuan Qin, Zhongqiang Zhao, Xiaofeng Hou, Jiangang Zou, Ming-long Chen, Cheng Wang, Weihua Zhou
Identifying CRT responders: Moving from electrical to mechanical dyssynchrony
Aviral Vij, Saurabh Malhotra
Serial changes in cardiac sympathetic nervous function after transcatheter aortic valve replacement: A prospective observational study using 123I-meta-iodobenzylguanidine imaging
Yoshito Kadoya, Kan Zen, Nagara Tamaki, Shunsuke Nakamura, Tomotaka Fujimoto, Masaki Yashige, Kazuaki Takamatsu, Nobuyasu Ito, Michiyo Yamano, Tetsuhiro Yamano, Takeshi Nakamura, Hidetake Kawajiri, Satoshi Numata, Hitoshi Yaku, Satoaki Matoba
Understanding changes in central nervous system function after transcatheter aortic valve replacement
Angelo Silverio, Gennaro Galasso
ASNC Imaging Indications (ASNC-I2): Multisocietal indications for radionuclide imaging in the multimodality context—Series rationale and methodology
Jamieson M. Bourque, Andrew J. Einstein, Sharmila Dorbala
Quantitative technetium pyrophosphate and cardiovascular magnetic resonance in patients with suspected cardiac amyloidosis
Golnaz Roshankar, Geneva C. White, Sebastien Cadet, Nowell M. Fine, Denise Chan, James A. White, Victor Jimenez-Zepeda, Piotr J. Slomka, Robert J. H. Miller
Quantitative SPECT in PYP imaging: Ready for prime time or too early to tell?
Shivda Pandey
Immune checkpoint inhibitor myocarditis mimicking Takotsubo cardiomyopathy on MPI
Takashi Norikane, Katsuya Mitamura, Yuka Yamamoto, Yasukage Takami, Kengo Fujimoto, Takahisa Noma, Yoshihiro Nishiyama
Left ventricular non-compaction with normal myocardial perfusion
Hanna Al-Makhamreh, Khaled Ojjoh, Ahmad Albanna, Ala Shaban, Malik Juweid
Nuclear imaging in cardiac paragangliomas: Diagnostic and follow-up
María Belén Tagliatori-Nogueira, Cristina Sandoval-Moreno, María del Carmen Colomés-Íess, Luis Bañuelos-Andrio, Alberto Herrero-Muñoz, María Ángeles Balsa-Bretón
Primary cardiac angiosarcoma with thrombosis and multiple bone marrow metastases mimicking lymphoma on 18F-FDG PET/CT
Maoqing Jiang, Ping Chen, Jianjun Zheng
Left ventricular mural thrombus appearing as a photopenic defect on myocardial viability PET imaging
Mahesh K. Vidula, Yuchi Han, Harold Litt, Paco E. Bravo
Complementary role of hybrid imaging with SPECT myocardial perfusion and coronary CT angiography in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
Rami M. Abazid, Jonathan G. Romsa, James C. Warrington, Cigdem Akincioglu, Robert. Z. Stodilka, William C. Vezina
Incidental extra-cardiac uptake of 99mTc-pyrophosphate
Pranav Chandrashekar, Ahmad Masri
Transient multifocal pulmonary uptake of 99mTc-sestamibi in myocardial perfusion imaging: Iatrogenic clot artifact
Hadi Malek, Nahid Yaghoobi
Comparison of 68Ga-FAPI imaging and cardiac magnetic resonance in detection of myocardial fibrosis in a patient with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension
Hai-Qun Xing, Juan-Ni Gong, Bi-Xi Chen, Xiao-Juan Guo, Yuan-Hua Yang, Li Huo, Min-Fu Yang
Tc-99m pyrophosphate left atrial uptake in patients with atrial fibrillation and cardiac amyloidosis
Rami M. Abazid, Jonathan G. Romsa, James C. Warrington, Robert. Z. Stodilka, Ryan A. Davey, Sabe De, David L. Laidley, William C. Vezina, Cigdem Akincioglu
Primary pericardial angiosarcoma: A case report
Wencui Li, Lizhu Han, Zhaoxiang Ye
18F-FMISO PET/CT: a new promising radiotracer for cardiac sarcoidosis and extracardiac involvement?
Sara Pacella
The practicalities of COVID’s impact on nuclear cardiology
Joseph C. Lee, Richard A. Baer
Response to: The practicalities of COVID’s impact on nuclear cardiology
Randall C. Thompson
Highlights of the 26th Annual Scientific Session of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology
Parham Eshtehardi, Mrinali Shetty, Madison Kocher, Shady Abohashem, Nishant R. Shah, Rafael W. Lopes, Gabriel B. Grossman, Niti R. Aggarwal, Renee P. Bullock-Palmer
Radiopharmaceutical supply disruptions and the use of 99mTc-hydroxymethylene diphosphonate as an alternative to 99mTc-pyrophosphate for the diagnosis of transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis: An ASNC Information Statement
Edward J. Miller, Roxana Campisi, Nishant R. Shah, Sean McMahon, Sarah Cuddy, Cesia Gallegos-Kattan, Mathew S. Maurer, Thibaud Damy, Riemer H. J. A. Slart, Ketan Bhatia, Andrew J. Einstein
Abstracts of Original Contributions ASNC2022 The 27th Annual Scientific Session of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology
ASNC Annual Meetings Have Made a Huge Impact for Me. Attending ASNC2022 Can Do the Same for You
Dennis A. Calnon