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Journal of Nuclear Cardiology

Ausgabe 6/2023

Inhalt (80 Artikel)

EDITOR'S PAGE

Confessions, the JNC family, and final farewell

Ami E. Iskandrian

Editorial

Advancing the mission of cardiovascular molecular imaging

Sharmila Dorbala, Wunan Zhou, Mehran Sadeghi

GREAT DEBATES

Invasive vs non-invasive testing

Ami E. Iskandrian

WHAT IS THIS IMAGE?

What is this image? 2023: Image 4

Open Access ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Myocardial creep and cardiorespiratory motion correction improves diagnostic accuracy of Rubidium-82 cardiac positron emission tomography

Martin Lyngby Lassen, Thomas Rasmussen, Christina Byrne, Lene Holmvang, Andreas Kjaer, Philip Hasbak

ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Increasing frequency of dyspnea among patients referred for cardiac stress testing

Alan Rozanski, Heidi Gransar, Sakul Sakul, Robert J. H. Miller, Donghee Han, Sean W. Hayes, John D. Friedman, Louise E. J. Thomson, Daniel S. Berman

ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Pentoxifylline reduces inflammation and prevents myocardial perfusion derangements in experimental chronic Chagas’ cardiomyopathy

Denise Mayumi Tanaka, Camila Godoy Fabricio, José A. Marin-Neto, Antônio Carlos Leite de Barros Filho, Luciano Fonseca Lemos de Oliveira, Jorge Mejia, Rafael Ribeiro Almeida, Raquel de Souza Vieira, Carla Duque Lopes, Sabrina Setembre Batah, Henrique Turin Moreira, Maria de Lourdes Higuchi, Edecio Cunha Neto, Alexandre Todorovic Fabro, Stephan G. Nekolla, Minna Moreira Dias Romano, Marcus Vinícius Simões

Open Access ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Immediate recruitment of dormant coronary collaterals can provide more than half of normal resting perfusion during coronary occlusion in patients with coronary artery disease

Brandon J. Reid, Thomas Lindow, Stafford Warren, Eva Persson, Ravinay Bhindi, Michael Ringborn, Martin Ugander, Usaid Allahwala

Open Access REVIEW ARTICLE

Combined evaluation of CAC score and myocardial perfusion imaging in patients at risk of cardiovascular disease: where are we and what do the data say

Teresa Mannarino, Adriana D’Antonio, Roberta Assante, Emilia Zampella, Valeria Gaudieri, Mario Petretta, Alberto Cuocolo, Wanda Acampa

EDITORIAL

Hybrid nuclear/CT cardiac imaging: Pros cons and the future

Yafim Brodov, Pierre Chouraqui, Orly Goitein

ORIGINAL ARTICLE

18F-sodium fluoride positron emission tomography following coronary computed tomography angiography in predicting long-term coronary events: a 5-year follow-up study

Toshiro Kitagawa, Ko Sasaki, Yuto Fujii, Yuki Ikegami, Fuminari Tatsugami, Kazuo Awai, Yutaka Hirokawa, Yukiko Nakano

ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Autonomic denervation, myocardial hypoperfusion and fibrosis may predict ventricular arrhythmia in the early stages of Chagas cardiomyopathy

Adriana Soares Xavier de Brito, Renata Junqueira Moll-Bernardes, Martha Valéria Tavares Pinheiro, Gabriel Cordeiro Camargo, Fabio Paiva Rossini Siqueira, Renee Sarmento Oliveira, Adriana Pereira Glavam, Sergio Altino de Almeida, Marcelo Teixeira de Holanda, Luiz Henrique Conde Sangenis, Fernanda de Souza Nogueira Sardinha Mendes, Paulo Henrique Rosado-de-Castro, Andrea Silvestre de Sousa

Open Access ORIGINAL ARTICLE

18F-FDG PET/CT-derived total lesion glycolysis predicts abscess formation in patients with surgically confirmed infective endocarditis: Results of a retrospective study at a tertiary center

Sabine Julia Maria Sag, Karin Menhart, Florian Hitzenbichler, Christof Schmid, Frank Hofheinz, Jörg van den Hoff, Lars Siegfried Maier, Dirk Hellwig, Jirka Grosse, Can Martin Sag

ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Observer studies of image quality of denoising reduced-count cardiac single photon emission computed tomography myocardial perfusion imaging by three-dimensional Gaussian post-reconstruction filtering and deep learning

P. Hendrik Pretorius, Junchi Liu, Kesava S. Kalluri, Yulei Jiang, Jeffery A. Leppo, Seth T. Dahlberg, Janusz Kikut, Matthew W. Parker, Friederike K. Keating, Robert Licho, Benjamin Auer, Clifford Lindsay, Arda Konik, Yongyi Yang, Miles N. Wernick, Michael A. King

ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Meta-analysis of the effectiveness of heparin in suppressing physiological myocardial FDG uptake in PET/CT

Shan-Ho Chan, Cheng-Kai Huang, Dmytro Luzhbin, Po-Nien Hou, Yu-Ting Chang, Jay Wu

ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Diagnostic accuracy of bone scintigraphy imaging for transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis: systematic review and meta-analysis

Nanki Ahluwalia, Golnaz Roshankar, Logan Draycott, Victor Jimenez-Zepeda, Nowell Fine, Denise Chan, Donghee Han, Robert J. H. Miller

Open Access ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Exponential dosing to standardize myocardial perfusion image quality with rubidium-82 PET

Anahita Tavoosi, Ritika Khetarpal, R. Glenn Wells, Rob S. B. Beanlands, Robert A. deKemp

ORIGINAL ARTICLE

FDG-PET/CT and rest myocardial perfusion imaging to predict high-degree atrioventricular block recovery in cardiac sarcoidosis

Yousif A. Lucinian, Patrick Martineau, Raluca Poenaru, Maxime Tremblay-Gravel, Julia Cadrin-Tourigny, Francois Harel, Matthieu Pelletier-Galarneau

EDITORIAL

Can FDG PET/CT predict AV nodal recovery in cardiac sarcoidosis?

Leah A. John, Usha B. Tedrow, Sanjay Divakaran

Open Access ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Pulmonary blood volume assessment from a standard cardiac rubidium-82 imaging protocol: impact of adenosine-induced hyperemia

Martin Lyngby Lassen, Christina Byrne, Jacob Peter Hartmann, Andreas Kjaer, Ronan M. G. Berg, Philip Hasbak

REVIEW ARTICLE

Comparison of cardiac magnetic resonance imaging and fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography in the assessment of myocardial viability: meta-analysis and systematic review

Mehul Adhaduk, Bishow Paudel, Kan Liu, Mahi Ashwath, Milena A. Gebska, Kimberly Delcour, Riley J. Samuelson, Michael Giudici

CASE PRESENTATION CORNER

Complete resolution of focal-on-diffuse myocardial activity pattern on FDG PET-CT by prolonging the dietary preparation protocol in cardiac sarcoidosis

Prerna Kherajani, Ayman A. Farag, William S. Morgan, Fadi G. Hage, Pradeep Bhambhvani

ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Prevalence and significance of extracardiac uptake on pyrophosphate imaging in the SCAN-MP study: the first 379 cases

Nicholas Chan, Andrew J. Einstein, Jan M. Griffin, Hannah Rosenblum, Sergio Teruya, Margaret Cuomo, Jeffeny De Los Santos, Albert DeLuca, Lynne L. Johnson, Mona P. Kinkhabwala, Jay S. Leb, Akiva Mintz, Denise Fine, Stephen Helmke, Varsha Muralidhar, Shivda Pandey, Natalia Sabogal, Sunil E. Saith, Morgan Winburn, Dia Smiley, Edward J. Miller, Frederick L. Ruberg, Mathew S. Maurer

ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Potential utility of SPECT/CT with 99mTc-Tektrotyd for imaging of post-myocardial infarction inflammation

Svetlana I. Sazonova, Julia N. Ilyushenkova, Anna G. Syrkina, Andrey A. Trusov, Olga V. Mochula, Anna I. Mishkina, Vyacheslav V. Ryabov

Open Access ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Coronary artery calcium score and pre-test probabilities as gatekeepers to predict and rule out perfusion defects in positron emission tomography

Olivier F. Clerc, Simon M. Frey, Ursina Honegger, Melissa L. F. Amrein, Federico Caobelli, Philip Haaf, Michael J. Zellweger

ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Machine learning to predict hemodynamically significant CAD based on traditional risk factors, coronary artery calcium and epicardial fat volume

Wenji Yu, Le Yang, Feifei Zhang, Bao Liu, Yunmei Shi, Jianfeng Wang, Xiaoliang Shao, Yongjun Chen, Xiaoyu Yang, Yuetao Wang

ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Prognosis and follow-up of patients with prosthetic valve endocarditis treated conservatively in relation to WBC-SPECT imaging

Julia Grambow-Velilla, Besma Mahida, Khadija Benali, Laurene Deconinck, Caroline Chong-Nguyen, Claire Cimadevilla, Xavier Duval, Bernard Iung, François Rouzet, Fabien Hyafil

ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Accurate and efficient rapid acquisition early post-injection stress-first CZT SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging with tetrofosmin and attenuation correction

James A. Case, Staci A. Courter, AIain McGhie, Krishna K. Patel, Brett W. Sperry, Erin Moloney, Katrina O. Case, Eric V. Burgett, Timothy M. Bateman

ORIGINAL ARTICLE

A new perspective on an old method: gated SPECT imaging for left ventricular contractile function assessment

Lucas San Miguel, Ezequiel Goldschmidt, Alyssa K. Brisbin, Marcela Redruello, Osvaldo H. Masoli

ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Coronary vascular dysfunction is associated with increased risk of death in patients with peripheral artery disease

Poghni A. Peri-Okonny, Krishna K. Patel, R. Angel Garcia, Merrill Thomas, A. Iain McGhie, Matthew C. Bunte, John A. Spertus, Randall C. Thompson, Timothy M. Bateman

Open Access ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Cardiac metastases from neuroendocrine neoplasms: complementary role of SSTR PET/CT and cardiac MRI

Evyn G. Arnfield, Laura Tam, David A. Pattison, John Younger, Venkata Avinash Chikatamarla, David Wyld, Matthew Burge, Louise McCormack, Rahul Ladwa, Stuart Ramsay

ORIGINAL ARTICLE

The incremental value of coronary artery calcium score in predicting long-term prognosis and defining the warranty period of normal adenosine stress-only myocardial perfusion imaging using CZT SPECT

Mandy Kamerman, Joris D. van Dijk, Jorik R. Timmer, Jan Paul Ottervanger, Siert Knollema, Pieter L. Jager, Mohamed Mouden

ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Use of PET/CT to detect myocardial inflammation and the risk of malignant arrhythmia in chronic Chagas disease

Renée Sarmento de Oliveira, Renata Moll-Bernardes, Adriana Xavier de Brito, Martha Valéria Tavares Pinheiro, Sergio Altino de Almeida, Natália Lins da Silva Gomes, Flavia Vernin de Oliveira Terzi, Otacílio Cruz Moreira, Sergio Salles Xavier, Paulo Henrique Rosado-de-Castro, Andréa Silvestre de Sousa

ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Fibroblast activation protein imaging in atrial fibrillation: a proof-of-concept study

Lina Li, Jie Gao, Bi-Xi Chen, Xingpeng Liu, Liang Shi, Yanjiang Wang, Li Wang, Yidan Wang, Pixiong Su, Min-Fu Yang, Boqia Xie

Open Access ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy disease burden quantified using 99mTc-pyrophosphate SPECT/CT: volumetric parameters versus SUVmax ratio at 1 and 3 hours

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

Open Access ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Detection and correction of patient motion in dynamic 15O-water PET MPI

Nana L. Christensen, Jonny Nordström, Simon Madsen, Michael A. Madsen, Lars C. Gormsen, Tanja Kero, Mark Lubberink, Lars P. Tolbod

Open Access ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Hybridizing machine learning in survival analysis of cardiac PET/CT imaging

Luis Eduardo Juarez-Orozco, Mikael Niemi, Ming Wai Yeung, Jan Walter Benjamins, Teemu Maaniitty, Jarmo Teuho, Antti Saraste, Juhani Knuuti, Pim van der Harst, Riku Klén

Open Access ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Vascular adhesion protein-1-targeted PET imaging in autoimmune myocarditis

Arghavan Jahandideh, Jenni Virta, Xiang-Guo Li, Heidi Liljenbäck, Olli Moisio, Jesse Ponkamo, Noora Rajala, Marion Alix, Jukka Lehtonen, Mikko I. Mäyränpää, Tiina A. Salminen, Juhani Knuuti, Sirpa Jalkanen, Antti Saraste, Anne Roivainen

Open Access ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Myocardial perfusion imaging with retrospective gating and integrated correction of attenuation, scatter, respiration, motion, and arrhythmia

Kenichi Nakajima, Takayuki Shibutani, Francesc Massanes, Takeshi Shimizu, Shohei Yoshida, Masahisa Onoguchi, Seigo Kinuya, A. Hans Vija

Open Access ORIGINAL ARTICLE

82Rb and [15O]H2O myocardial perfusion PET imaging: a prospective head to head comparison

Martin Krakauer, Afefah Ismail, Ulrik Talleruphuus, Alexander Cuculiza Henriksen, Markus N. Lonsdale, Inge Lise Rasmussen, Stefan Fuglsang, Eva Prescott, Peter Hovind, Lisbeth Marner

IMAGES THAT TEACH

Perfusion defect with characteristic anterior wall indentation on myocardial perfusion imaging caused by a large left ventricular aneurysm

Karthikeyan Subramanian, Raza Mahdi, Harpreet Singh, Ashwani Sood, Bhagwant Rai Mittal

IMAGES THAT TEACH

Stigmata of portal hypertension depicted on myocardial perfusion imaging

Karthikeyan Subramanian, Bhagwant Rai Mittal, Harpreet Singh, Ashwani Sood

IMAGES THAT TEACH

Left ventricular assist device infection on 18F-flourodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography

Simrat Kaur, Patricia Bartley, Steven Gordon, Andrew Higgins, Pavan Bhat, Wael Jaber

IMAGES THAT TEACH

Rare ATTR wild-type cardiac amyloidosis after kidney transplantation

Ivan Zepeda-Quiroz, Ana Michel-Vasquez, Alexis D. Aparicio-Ortiz, Brenda Guadalupe Cortez-Flores, Aldo Cabello-Ganem, Virgilia Soto-Abraham, Enrique Alexander Berrios-Bárcenas, Francisco Eugenio Rodríguez-Castellanos, Cesar Flores-Gama, Nilda Espinola-Zavaleta

IMAGES THAT TEACH

Difference in cardiac uptake between 99mTc-HMDP and 99mTc-DPD for the non-invasive diagnosis of cardiac transthyretin amyloidosis

Matthieu Dietz, Antoine Jobbé-Duval, Caroline Moreau-Triby, Anthime Flaus

IMAGES THAT TEACH

Ascites and liver cirrhosis diagnosed on cardiac scintigraphic imaging

John Dawdy, Aws Polina, Aiden Abidov

Open Access IMAGES THAT TEACH

18F-FDG-PET of cardiac sarcoidosis with subcutaneous nodules

Saara Sillanmäki, Saara Iso-Mustajärvi

IMAGES THAT TEACH

Multimodality imaging of primary cardiac angiosarcoma

Chaojie Wang, Ge Wang, Zengxiao Zou, Songtao Tan, Xiaoping Fan

IMAGES THAT TEACH

A protection against infection but a risk of misdiagnosis? False positive uptake in an implanted cardiac device

Albert Roque, Jaume Francisco-Pascual, Joan F. Andrés-Cordón, Núria Fernández-Hidalgo, José Raúl Herance, Hug Cuellar-Calabria, Santiago Aguadé-Bruix, María Nazarena Pizzi

ASNC INFORMATION STATEMENT

Atlas for reporting PET myocardial perfusion imaging and myocardial blood flow in clinical practice: an information statement from the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology

Panithaya Chareonthaitawee, Timothy M. Bateman, Rob S. Beanlands, Daniel S. Berman, Dennis A. Calnon, Marcelo F. Di Carli, Gary V. Heller, Venkatesh L. Murthy, Krishna K. Patel, Thomas H. Schindler, Viviany R. Taqueti, Christiane C. Wiefels, Mouaz H. Al-Mallah

IMAGES THAT TEACH

Myocardial perfusion imaging in congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries

Benjamin Matthews, Daniel Duddleston, Fadi G. Hage

PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE

ASNC without borders: A global effort in nuclear cardiology

Mouaz H. Al-Mallah

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