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Journal of Nuclear Cardiology

Ausgabe 6/2022

Inhalt (132 Artikel)

News

Tragedy strikes home

Ami E. Iskandrian

Editor's Page

The science and art of medicine today

Ami E. Iskandrian, Susan Buckingham

Review of the Literature

Cardiovascular disease in the literature: A selection of recent original research papers

Wael A. AlJaroudi, Fadi G. Hage

Review of the Literature

Nuclear cardiology in the literature: a selection of recent, original research papers

Richard L. Weinberg, Saurabh Malhotra

What is This Image?

What is this Image? 2022 Image 3 Result: Distinguish features when the diagnosis is unclear: Cardiac sarcoidosis or arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia?

Anna Giulia Pavon, Christel Hermann Kamani, Alain Delabays, Antoine Pasche, Patrizio Pascale

WHAT IS THIS IMAGE?

What is This Image? 2022: Image 4

Original Article

Metabolic activity of the left and right atria are differentially altered in patients with atrial fibrillation and LV dysfunction

Nicolas D. Santi, Kai Yi Wu, C. J. Redpath, Pablo B. Nery, Wayne Huang, Ian G. Burwash, Jordan Bernick, George A. Wells, Brian McArdle, Benjamin W. J. Chow, David H. Birnie, Linda Garrard, Robert A. deKemp, Rob S. B. Beanlands

Original Article

The prevalence and predictors of inducible myocardial ischemia among patients referred for radionuclide stress testing

Alan Rozanski, Robert J. H. Miller, Donghee Han, Heidi Gransar, Piotr Slomka, Damini Dey, Sean B. Hayes, John Friedman, Louise B. Thomson, Daniel S. Berman

Original Article

Amiodarone attenuates cardiac Rubidium-82 in consecutive PET/CT scans in a rodent model

Simon Bentsen, Lia E. Bang, Philip Hasbak, Andreas Kjaer, Rasmus S. Ripa

Open Access Editorial

No major impact of prescribed CAD drugs on myocardial perfusion uptake derived by [82]rubidium PET

Rudolf A. Werner, Steven P. Rowe, Takahiro Higuchi

Original Article

PET/CT morphology and cardiac conduction disorders help discriminate primary cardiac lymphoma from primary cardiac sarcoma

Hui Yuan, Jia Qiu, Keith W. H. Chiu, Lawrence W. C. Chan, Fen Zhang, Xiaojuan Wei, Lei Jiang

Original Article

Post-reconstruction attenuation correction for SPECT myocardium perfusion imaging facilitated by deep learning-based attenuation map generation

Hui Liu, Jing Wu, Luyao Shi, Yaqiang Liu, Edward Miller, Albert Sinusas, Yi-Hwa Liu, Chi Liu

Original Article

Effect of left ventricular mechanical dyssynchrony assessed pre-renal transplantation on cardiovascular death post transplantation

William S. Morgan, Christopher W. Ives, Ayman A. Farag, Vineeta Kumar, Pradeep Bhambhvani, Ami E. Iskandrian, Fadi G. Hage

Review Article

Investigating the genetic characteristics of CAD: Is there a role for myocardial perfusion imaging techniques?

G. Angelidis, V. Valotassiou, M. Satra, D. Psimadas, J. Koutsikos, J. Skoularigis, P. Kollia, P. Georgoulias

Original Article

Vascular/perivascular inflammation in IgG4-related disease

Shinichi Imai, Nobuhiro Tahara, Sachiyo Igata, Atsuko Tahara, Munehisa Bekki, Yoichi Sugiyama, Shoko Maeda-Ogata, Akihiro Honda, Hiroyuki Otsuka, Tomoyuki Ushijima, Yoshinobu Okabe, Hayato Kaida, Toshi Abe, Hiroyuki Tanaka, Yoshihiro Fukumoto, Eiki Tayama

Editorial

FDG PET vascular imaging in IgG4-RD: Potential and challenges

Darko Pucar, Monique Hinchcliff

Open Access Original Article

Normal imaging findings after ascending aorta prosthesis implantation on 18F-Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography with computed tomography

Ali R. Wahadat, Wilco Tanis, Ties A. Mulders, Laura H. Graven, Margreet W. A. Bekker, Jos A. Bekkers, Jolien W. Roos-Hesselink, Ricardo P. J. Budde

Original Article

Effect of nitroglycerin on splanchnic and pulmonary blood volume

Luis E. Okamoto, William D. Dupont, Italo Biaggioni, Marvin W. Kronenberg

Editorial

Effect of nitroglycerin on splanchnic and pulmonary blood volume

Michael I. Brener, Daniel Burkhoff

Original Article

External validation of the CRAX2MACE model in an Italian cohort of patients with suspected coronary artery disease undergoing stress myocardial perfusion imaging

Rosario Megna, Mario Petretta, Roberta Assante, Emilia Zampella, Carmela Nappi, Valeria Gaudieri, Teresa Mannarino, Roberta Green, Valeria Cantoni, Pietro Buongiorno, Adriana D’Antonio, Wanda Acampa, Alberto Cuocolo

Open Access Original Article

Pulmonary perfusion and NYHA classification improve after cardiac resynchronization therapy

Mariam Al-Mashat, Rasmus Borgquist, Marcus Carlsson, Håkan Arheden, Jonas Jögi

Open Access Original Article

Prognostic implication of myocardial perfusion and contractile reserve in end-stage renal disease: A direct comparison of myocardial perfusion scintigraphy and dobutamine stress echocardiography

Joachim Bautz, Jörg Stypmann, Stefanie Reiermann, Hermann-Joseph Pavenstädt, Barbara Suwelack, Lars Stegger, Kambiz Rahbar, Stefan Reuter, Michael Schäfers

Original Article

Comparison of diabetes to other prognostic predictors among patients referred for cardiac stress testing: A contemporary analysis from the REFINE SPECT Registry

Donghee Han, Alan Rozanski, Heidi Gransar, Evangelos Tzolos, Robert J. H. Miller, 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, Joanna X. Liang, Lien-Hsin Hu, Damini Dey, Daniel S. Berman, Piotr J. Slomka

Editorial

Diabetes is still a CAD risk equivalent, now what?

Christopher Perry, David E. Winchester

Original Article

Incremental value of 18F-FDG cardiac PET imaging over dobutamine stress echocardiography in predicting myocardial ischemia in patients with suspected coronary artery disease

Emilia Zampella, Roberta Assante, Wanda Acampa, Valeria Gaudieri, Carmela Nappi, Teresa Mannarino, Adriana D’Antonio, Pietro Buongiorno, Mariarosaria Panico, Ciro Gabriele Mainolfi, Letizia Spinelli, Mario Petretta, Alberto Cuocolo

Editorial

Cardiac 18F-FDG imaging for direct myocardial ischemia imaging

Akshay Goel, Dhrubajyoti Bandyopadhyay, Zuo-Xiang He, Min-Fu Yang, Diwakar Jain

Open Access Review Article

Cardiac lymphoma with early response to chemotherapy: A case report and review of the literature

Andrea Bonelli, Sara Paris, Stefano Bisegna, Giuseppe Milesi, Emanuele Gavazzi, Raffaele Giubbini, Chiara Cattaneo, Fabio Facchetti, Pompilio Faggiano

Original Article

Anti-inflammatory effect of rosuvastatin in patients with HIV infection: An FDG-PET pilot study

Kevin E. Boczar, Elliot Faller, Wanzhen Zeng, Jerry Wang, Gary R. Small, Vicente F. Corrales-Medina, Robert A. deKemp, Natalie C. Ward, Rob S. B. Beanlands, Paul MacPherson, Girish Dwivedi

Editorial

Evidence of an anti-inflammatory effect of statins in people living with HIV

Hadil Zureigat, Shady Abohashem, Michael T. Osborne, Janet Lo, Priscilla Hsue, Ahmed Tawakol

Original Article

Coronary vasomotor dysfunction portends worse outcomes in patients with breast cancer

Sanjay Divakaran, Jesse P. Caron, Wunan Zhou, Jon Hainer, Courtney F. Bibbo, Hicham Skali, Viviany R. Taqueti, Sharmila Dorbala, Ron Blankstein, John D. Groarke, Anju Nohria, Marcelo F. Di Carli

Original Article

Phase analysis for ventricular arrhythmia prediction: A retrospective monocentric cohort study

Maxime Beneyto, Philippe Maury, Anne Rollin, Pierre Mondoly, Franck Mandel, Pierre Pascal, Eve Cariou, Didier Carrié, Michel Galinier, Olivier Lairez

Open Access Original Article

Volumetric evaluation of 99mTc-pyrophosphate SPECT/CT for transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis: Methodology and correlation with cardiac functional parameters

Satoru Watanabe, Kenichi Nakajima, Hiroshi Wakabayashi, Hiroto Yoneyama, Shohei Yoshida, Junji Komatsu, Takahiro Konishi, Anri Inaki, Seigo Kinuya

Original Article

Prognostic value of divergent pattern detection by 99mTc-sestamibi gated SPECT in patients with anterior acute myocardial infarction

R. Calabretta, A. Castello, C. Giglioli, E. Cecchi, G. Cerisano, M. Hacker, R. Sciagrà

Original Article

Amyloid deposit corresponds to technetium-99m-pyrophosphate accumulation in abdominal fat of patients with transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis

Koji Takahashi, Daisuke Sasaki, Mina Yamashita, Tomoki Sakaue, Daijiro Enomoto, Hiroe Morioka, Shigeki Uemura, Takafumi Okura, Shuntaro Ikeda, Taizo Kono, Yoshiyasu Hiratsuka, Akira Saijo, Nobuhisa Yamamura, Sohei Kitazawa, Taro Yamashita, Mitsuharu Ueda

Review Article

The current status of CZT SPECT myocardial blood flow and reserve assessment: Tips and tricks

Konstantin V. Zavadovsky, Andrew V. Mochula, Alina N. Maltseva, Vladimir V. Shipulin, Svetlana I. Sazonova, Marina O. Gulya, Ricardo Liga, Alessia Gimelli

Original Article

Semi-quantitative assessment of ischemia with rubidium-82 PET myocardial perfusion imaging

N. M. Borren, T. J. Gerritse, J. P. Ottervanger, M. Mouden, J. R. Timmer, J. A. van Dalen, P. L. Jager, J. D. van Dijk

Original Article

Regional myocardial sympathetic denervation precedes the development of left ventricular systolic dysfunction in chronic Chagas’ cardiomyopathy

Leonardo Pippa Gadioli, Carlos Henrique Miranda, José Antonio Marin-Neto, Gustavo Jardim Volpe, Antonio Carlos Leite Barros Filho, Antonio Pazin Filho, Antonio Osvaldo Pintya, Alexandre Baldini de Figueiredo, Marcus Vinicius Simões

Original Article

F-18 meta-fluorobenzylguanidine PET imaging of myocardial sympathetic innervation

Milan Grkovski, Pat B. Zanzonico, Shakeel Modak, John L. Humm, Jagat Narula, Neeta Pandit-Taskar

Original Article

Association of atrial 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose uptake and prior ischemic stroke in non-atrial fibrillation patients

Yao Su, Bi-Xi Chen, Yuetao Wang, Sijin Li, Boqia Xie, Min-Fu Yang

Editorial

Atrial FDG uptake linked to ischemic stroke in patients without atrial fibrillation

Shady Abohashem, Wesam Aldosoky, Michael T. Osborne

Open Access Original Article

Image-derived and physiological markers to predict adequate adenosine-induced hyperemic response in Rubidium-82 myocardial perfusion imaging

Martin Lyngby Lassen, Mads Wissenberg, Christina Byrne, Majid Sheykhzade, Preetee Kapisha Hurry, Anne Vibeke Schmedes, Andreas Kjær, Philip Hasbak

Original Article

Prevalence and predictors of automatically quantified myocardial ischemia within a multicenter international registry

Donghee Han, Alan Rozanski, Robert J. H. Miller, 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, Joanna X. Liang, Damini Dey, Daniel S. Berman, Piotr J. Slomka

Open Access Original Article

Low-dose CT from myocardial perfusion SPECT/CT allows the detection of anemia in preoperative patients

Antonio G. Gennari, Hannes Grünig, Dominik C. Benz, Stephan Skawran, Alexander Maurer, Ahmad M. A. Abukwaik, Alexia Rossi, Catherine Gebhard, Ronny R. Buechel, Michael Messerli

Theme Articles

Statistical methods for validation of predictive models

Marcio Augusto Diniz

Original Article

The detection of infectious endocarditis may be enhanced by a repeat FDG-PET while maintaining patients on a ketogenic diet

Marine Germaini, Caroline Boursier, François Goehringer, Christine Selton-Suty, Benjamin Lefevre, Véronique Roch, Laetitia Imbert, Marine Claudin, Elodie Chevalier, Pierre-Yves Marie

Editorial

Turning the heart off: give it a second try?

Nidaa Mikail, Fabien Hyafil

Original Article

Three-dimensional Fusion of Myocardial Perfusion SPECT and Invasive Coronary Angiography Guides Coronary Revascularization

Zhihui Xu, Haipeng Tang, Saurabh Malhotra, Minghao Dong, Chen Zhao, Zekang Ye, Ying Zhou, Shun Xu, Dianfu Li, Cheng Wang, Weihua Zhou

Editorial

Image fusion: the beauty of the truth from the inside and out

Samia Massalha, Zohar Keidar

Open Access Original Article

Impact of rubidium imaging availability on management of patients with acute chest pain

Akasha Shaukat Ali, Vincent Finnerty, Francois Harel, Guillaume Marquis-Gravel, Alain Vadeboncoeur, Matthieu Pelletier-Galarneau

Editorial

The right test for the right patient at the right time

Merrill Thomas, Randall C. Thompson

Original Article

DSPECT-specific normative limits for left ventricular size and function

Joseph Ibrahim, Ricardo A. Nieves, Amr F. Barakat, Kevin Hynal, Daniel Shpilsky, Prem Soman

Open Access Original Article

Multi-task Deep Learning of Myocardial Blood Flow and Cardiovascular Risk Traits from PET Myocardial Perfusion Imaging

Ming Wai Yeung, Jan Walter Benjamins, Remco J. J. Knol, Friso M. van der Zant, Folkert W. Asselbergs, Pim van der Harst, Luis Eduardo Juarez-Orozco

Editorial

Deep learning: Opening a third eye to myocardial perfusion imaging

Tomoe Hagio, Venkatesh L. Murthy

Open Access Original Article

A methodological framework for AI-assisted diagnosis of active aortitis using radiomic analysis of FDG PET–CT images: Initial analysis

Lisa Duff, Andrew F. Scarsbrook, Sarah L. Mackie, Russell Frood, Marc Bailey, Ann W. Morgan, Charalampos Tsoumpas

Open Access Theme Articles

Phenotype-based management of coronary microvascular dysfunction

Daniel Tze Yee Ang, Colin Berry, Juan-Carlos Kaski

Open Access Original Article

Simultaneous assessment of myocardial perfusion and adrenergic innervation in patients with heart failure by low-dose dual-isotope CZT SPECT imaging

Roberta Assante, Adriana D’Antonio, Teresa Mannarino, Carmela Nappi, Valeria Gaudieri, Emilia Zampella, Pietro Buongiorno, Valeria Cantoni, Roberta Green, Nicola Frega, Hein J. Verberne, Mario Petretta, Alberto Cuocolo, Wanda Acampa

Original Article

Associations between coronary/aortic 18F-sodium fluoride uptake and pro-atherosclerosis factors in patients with multivessel coronary artery disease

Wanwan Wen, Mingxin Gao, Mingkai Yun, Jingjing Meng, Ziwei Zhu, Wenyuan Yu, Marcus Hacker, Yang Yu, Xiaoli Zhang, Xiang Li

Open Access Original Article

Optimization of the left ventricle ejection fraction estimate obtained during cardiac adenosine stress 82Rubidium-PET scanning: impact of different reconstruction protocols

Martin Lyngby Lassen, Mads Wissenberg, Christina Byrne, Andreas Kjaer, Philip Hasbak

Original Article

Cross-vender, cross-tracer, and cross-protocol deep transfer learning for attenuation map generation of cardiac SPECT

Xiongchao Chen, P. Hendrik Pretorius, Bo Zhou, Hui Liu, Karen Johnson, Yi-Hwa Liu, Michael A. King, Chi Liu

Open Access Original Article

Evaluation of balloon pulmonary angioplasty using lung perfusion SPECT in patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension

Hidenobu Hashimoto, Takashi Oka, Rine Nakanishi, Sunao Mizumura, Shintaro Dobashi, Yukiko Hashimoto, Yuriko Okamura, Kyoko Ota, Takanori Ikeda

Open Access Review Article

Diagnostic accuracy of myocardial perfusion imaging in patients evaluated for kidney transplantation: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Jeroen R. Kelderman, Floris E. J. Jolink, Stan Benjamens, Andrea G. Monroy-Gonzalez, Robert A. Pol, Riemer H. J. A. Slart

Brief Report

Incidental cardiac uptake of 99mTc-diphosphonates is predictive of poor outcome: data from 9616 bone scintigraphies

A. Salvalaggio, A. Cipriani, S. Righetto, P. Artioli, G. Sinigiani, L. De Michieli, M. Cason, K. Pilichou, D. Cecchin, C. Briani

Brief Report

Change in positron emission tomography perfusion imaging quality with a data-driven motion correction algorithm

Yushui Han, Ahmed Ibrahim Ahmed, Charles Hayden, Aaron K. Jung, Jean Michel Saad, Bruce Spottiswoode, Faisal Nabi, Mouaz H. Al-Mallah

Brief Report

Radioiodinated hypericin as a tracer for detection of acute myocardial infarction: SPECT-CT imaging in a swine model

Shuping Yang, Junting Ma, Tian Li, Peng Wang, Xudan Wang, Jian Zhang, Yicheng Ni, Haibo Shao

Brief Report

Diagnostic performance of IQ·SPECT with high-speed scanning: A preliminary quality control study in obese patients

Rudolf A. Werner, Ricardo Bello Martinez, Charles Marcus, Matthew J. Kruse, Sara Sheikhbahaei, Lilja B. Solnes, Takahiro Higuchi, Mehrbod S. Javadi, Steven P. Rowe

Editorial

Vascular graft infection: Improving diagnosis with functional imaging

Matthieu Pelletier-Galarneau, Daniel Juneau

Editorial

18F-FDG PET/CT imaging in the workup of cardiac and pericardial masses

Benedikt Bernhard, Christoph Gräni

Case Presentation Corner

Hemiplegic migraine episode triggered by regadenoson

Mohammed Elsadany, Sean R. McMahon, Sandhya Mehla, W. Lane Duvall

Case Presentation Corner

Cardiac PET in aortic stenosis: Potential role in risk refinement?

Kartik Gupta, Priyadarshini Dixit, Karthik Ananthasubramaniam

Correction

Correction: Pulmonary artery imaging with 68 Ga-FAPI-04 in patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension

Juan-Ni Gong, Bi-Xi Chen, Hai-Qun Xing, Li Huo, Yuan-Hua Yang, Min-Fu Yang

Cases with Images

Cases from a busy nuclear cardiology laboratory

Ammar A. Hasnie, Nirav Patel, Pradeep Bhambhvani, Ami E. Iskandrian, Fadi G. Hage

Hybrid Imaging Guideline

2022 ASNC/AAPM/SCCT/SNMMI guideline for the use of CT in hybrid nuclear/CT cardiac imaging

Mouaz H. Al-Mallah, Timothy M. Bateman, Kelley R. Branch, Andrew Crean, Eric L. Gingold, Randall C. Thompson, Sarah E. McKenney, Edward J. Miller, Venkatesh L. Murthy, Koen Nieman, Todd C. Villines, Michael V. Yester, Andrew J. Einstein, John J. Mahmarian

Letter to the Editor

Multimodality imaging of cardiac masses

Joseph C. Lee, Mohsen Habibian

Images that Teach

Exclusive gastric uptake on 99m-Technetium pyrophosphate scanning

Muzna Hussain, David Wolinsky, Patrick Collier, Wael Jaber

Letter to the Editor

Unanticipated findings and their implications

Lionel S. Zuckier

Zur Zeit gratis COVID-19 IMAGES THAT TEACH

COVID-19 related multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C): Role of 18F-FDG PET/CT to assess myocardial involvement

Swayamjeet Satapathy, Rajender Kumar, Anwin Joseph Kavanal, Venkata Subramanian Krishnaraju, Arivan Ramachandran, Prateek Deo, Varun Dhir, Bhagwant Rai Mittal

IMAGES THAT TEACH

Imaging an ATTR cardiac amyloidosis patient using fluorine-18 sodium fluoride PET/CT: A case report

Supanida Mayurasakorn, Peerapon Kiatkittikul, Chanisa Chotipanich, Chetsadaporn Promteangtrong, Anchisa Kunawudhi, Dheeratama Siripongsatian, Chanidapa Iamsa-art

Images that Teach

Potential utility of 18F-NaF PET/CT in cardiac amyloidosis

Yuki Tani, Takashi Norikane, Yasukage Takami, Katsuya Mitamura, Yuka Yamamoto, Masatoshi Morimoto, Takahisa Noma, Yoshihiro Nishiyama

Images that Teach

Carpal tunnel syndrome as an early red-flag sign of ATTRwt amyloidosis

Shoko Maeda-Ogata, Nobuhiro Tahara, Munehisa Bekki, Atsuko Tahara, Yoichi Sugiyama, Akihiro Honda, Sachiyo Igata, Toshi Abe, Mitsuharu Ueda, Yukio Ando, Yoshitaka Hirooka, Yoshihiro Fukumoto

Images that Teach

18F-FDG PET/CT focal cardiac uptake: An unsuspected Chiari’s network

Ana Moreno-Ballesteros, Jose Antonio Lojo-Ramírez, Jose Manuel Jiménez-Hoyuela-García

Images that Teach

Clinical significance of PET angiography in Takayasu arteritis

Mitsumasa Murao, Takashi Norikane, Kanako Chujo, Yasukage Takami, Katsuya Mitamura, Arai-Okuda Hanae, Yuka Yamamoto, Yukito Maeda, Hiroaki Dobashi, Yoshihiro Nishiyama

Images that Teach

Incidental 18F-FDG myocardial uptake revealed as physiological lesion by 18F-FLT PET/CT

Kanako Chujo, Takashi Norikane, Mitsumasa Murao, Yasukage Takami, Katsuya Mitamura, Yuka Yamamoto, Haruyuki Fujita, Yoshihiro Nishiyama

Images that Teach

Mediastinal diffuse large B-cell lymphoma mimicking invasive thymoma on 68Ga-FAPI PET/CT

Xiao Yang, Zhi Hu, Zhouxiang You, Yue Chen, Huipan Liu

Images that Teach

Subacute myocardial infarction detected by technetium-99m-labeled somatostatin analog scintigraphy

S. I. Sazonova, A. G. Syrkina, O. V. Mochula, Zh. Zh. Anashbaev, E. V. Popov, V. V. Ryabov

Images that Teach

Cardiac metastasis from esophageal carcinoma detected on 18F-FDG PET/CT and 68Ga-FAPI PET/CT scan

Zijuan Rao, Ji Wu, Guohao Jiang, Chunyin Zhang

Images that Teach

Diffuse uptake of [68Ga]Ga-FAPI in the left heart in a patient with hypertensive heart disease by PET/CT

Kaixian Lin, Xin Chen, Qianqian Xue, Shaobo Yao, Weibing Miao

Images that Teach

The value of 18F-FDG PET/CT in two cases of Primary Pericardial Mesothelioma

Ana Utrera-Costero, Juan Camilo Bernal-Vergara, Patricia Olivan-Sasot, Ana María Yepes-Agudelo, Cristina Ruiz-Llorca, Victor José Vera-Pinto, Pilar Bello-Arqués

Images that Teach

68Ga-FAPI PET/MRI in Coronary Heart Disease

Tingting Yuan, Xuejuan Wang

Images that Teach

[18F]FDG PET-CT in the diagnosis of bacterial pericarditis

João Borges-Rosa, Manuel Oliveira-Santos, Rodolfo Silva, Jorge Mendes, João Madaleno, Rogério Teixeira, Maria João Ferreira, Lino Gonçalves

Images that Teach

Reverse remodeling of small pulmonary arteries and right ventricle in pulmonary arterial hypertension

Nobuhiro Tahara, Yoichi Sugiyama, Atsuko Tahara, Munehisa Bekki, Shoko Maeda-Ogata, Akihiro Honda, Sachiyo Igata, Toshi Abe, Yoshihiro Fukumoto

Images that Teach

Cardiac sarcoidosis with thickening myocardium

Nobuhiro Tahara, Atsuko Tahara, Munehisa Bekki, Shoko Maeda-Ogata, Yoichi Sugiyama, Akihiro Honda, Sachiyo Igata, Toyoharu Oba, Toshi Abe, Yoshihiro Fukumoto

Images that Teach

Large-vessel vasculitis with persistent exertional dyspnea in a 75-year-old woman

Shiro Miura, Masanao Naya, Osamu Manabe, Takehiro Yamashita

Images that Teach

Cardiac involvement in polymyositis: Role of myocardial perfusion imaging

Rong Wang, Yongle Wang, Haijun Wang

ASNC President’s Message

A PatientFirst approach to test selection: Now and forever

Dennis A. Calnon

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