Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

SPECT perfusion imaging after coronary artery bypass grafting

  • Editorials
  • Published:
Journal of Nuclear Cardiology Aims and scope

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

References

  1. Favaloro RG. Critical analysis of coronary artery bypass graft surgery: a 30-year journey. J Am Coll Cardiol 1998;31:1B-63B.

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  2. Ivanov J, Weisel RD, David TE, Naylor CD. Fifteen-year trends in risk severity and operative mortality in elderly patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft surgery. Circulation 1998;97:673–80.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  3. Gibbons DB, Marwick TH, McCallister BD, Thompson PD, Winters WL Jr, Yanowitz FA. ACC/AHA Guidelines for exercise testing: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guideline (Committee on exercise testing). J Am Coll Cardiol 1997;30:260–315.

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  4. Eagle KA, Brundage BH, Chaitman BR, Ewy GA, Fleisher LA, Hertzer NR, et al. Guidelines for perioperative cardiovascular evaluation for noncardiac surgery: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (Committee on Perioperative Cardiovascular Evaluation for Noncardiac Surgery). J Am Coll Cardiol 1996;27:910–48.

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  5. Ryan TJ, Bauman WB, Kennedy JW, Keriakes DJ, King SB III, McCallister BD, et al. Guidelines for percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty. A report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Assessment of Diagnostic and Therapeutic Cardiovascular Procedures (committee of Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty). J Am Coll Cardiol 1993;22:2033–54.

    Google Scholar 

  6. Kirklin JW, Akins CW, Blackstone EH, Booth DC, Califf RM, Cohen LS, et al. Guidelines and indications for coronary artery bypass graft surgery: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Diagnostic and Therapeutic Cardiovascular Procedures (Submitted on Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery). J Am Coll Cardiol 1991;17:543–89.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  7. Iskandrian AS, Verani MS. Nuclear cardiac imaging: principles and applications. 2nd ed. Philadelphia: FA Davis Publishing Co; 1996.

    Google Scholar 

  8. Nallamothu N, Johnson JH, Bagheri B, Heo J, Iskandrian AE. Utility of stress single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) perfusion imaging in predicting outcome after coronary artery bypass grafting. Am J Cardiol 1997;80:1517–21.

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  9. Mishra JP, Iskandrian AE. Stress myocardial perfusion imaging after coronary angioplasty. Am J Cardiol 1998;81:766–9.

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  10. Schumacher B, Pecher P, von Specht BV, Stegmann Th. Induction of neoangiogenesis in ischemic myocardium by human growth factors. First clinical results of a new treatment of coronary heart disease. Circulation 1998;97:645–50.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  11. Germano G, Kiat H, Davanagh PD, et al. Automatic quantification of ejection fraction from gated myocardial perfusion SPECT. J Nucl Med 199;36:2138–47.

    Google Scholar 

  12. Iskandrian AE, Verani MS, editors. New developments in cardiac nuclear imaging. Armonk (NY): Futura Publishing Co, Inc; 1998.

    Google Scholar 

  13. Chaitman BR, Rosen AD, Williams DO, et al. Myocardial infarction and cardiac mortality in the Bypass Angioplasty Revascularization Investigation (BARI) Randomized Trial. Circulation 1997;96:2162–70.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  14. Elhendy A, Van Domburg RT, Bax JJ, et al. Dobutamine-atropine stress myocardial perfusion SPECT imaging in the diagnosis of graft stenosis after coronary artery bypass grafting. J Nucl Cardiol 1998;5:491–7.

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  15. Khoury AF, Rivera JM, Mahmarian JJ, Verani MS. Adenosine thallium-201 tomography in evaluation of graft patency late after coronary artery bypass graft surgery. J Am Coll Cardiol 1997;29:1290–5.

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  16. Iskandrian AE. Pharmacologic stress testing. In: Zaret BL, Beller GA, editors. Nuclear cardiology: state of the art and future directions. 2nd ed. St Louis: Mosby, Inc; 1998.

    Google Scholar 

  17. Calnon DA, Glover DK, Beller GA, et al. Effect of dobutamine stress on regional myocardial blood flow, technetium-99m sestamibi uptake, and systolic wall thickening in the presence of coronary artery stenoses: implications for pharmacologic stress testing. Circulation 1997;96:2553–60.

    Google Scholar 

  18. Palmas W, Bingham S, Diamond GA, et al. Incremental prognostic value of exercise thallium-201 myocardial single photon emission computed tomography late after coronary artery bypass surgery. J Am Coll Cardiol 1995;25:403–9.

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  19. Lauer MS, Lytle B, Pashkow F, Snader CE, Marwick TH. Prediction of death and myocardial infarction by screening with exercise-thallium testing after coronary artery bypass grafting. Lancet 1998;351:615–22.

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  20. Miller TD, Christian TF, Hodge DO, Mullan BP, Gibbons RJ. Prognostic value of exercise thallium-201 imaging within 2 years of coronary artery bypass graft surgery. J Am Coll Cardiol 1998;31:848–54.

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. MCP, Hahnemann School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Cardiology Division, Allegheny University of the Health Sciences, 230 North Broad St., NCB, Room 6328, MS 471, 19102, Philadelphia, PA

    Ami E. Iskandrian

Authors
  1. Ami E. Iskandrian
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Ami E. Iskandrian.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Iskandrian, A.E. SPECT perfusion imaging after coronary artery bypass grafting. J. Nucl. Cardiol. 5, 533–537 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1016/S1071-3581(98)90185-4

Download citation

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S1071-3581(98)90185-4

Search

Navigation