Nuclear Cardiology In The Literature
Myocardial Perfusion Imaging
Patel D, Barman TS, Beller GA. Comparison of the predictive value of exercise-induced ST depression versus exercise technetium- 99m sestamibi single-photon emission computed tomographic imaging for detection of coronary artery disease in patients with left ventricular hypertrophy. Am J Cardiol 2004;93:333–6.
Elhendy A, Schinkel AFL, van Domburg RT, et al. Prediction of all-cause mortality in women with known or suspected coronary artery disease by stress technetium-99m tetrofosmin myocardial perfusion imaging. Am J Cardiol, 2004;93:450–2.
Yoon JK, Lee KH, Lee EJ, et al. Identification of proximal left anterior descending artery stenosis with thallium-201 defect patterns in patients with angina pectoris. Am J Cardiol 2004;93:549–53.
Iwado H, Iwado Y, Ohmori K, et al. Latent abnormal fatty acid metabolism in apparently normal perfusion during stress in patients with restenosis after coronary angioplasty: assessment by exercise stress thallium-201 and iodine-123-labeled 15-(p-iodophenyl)- 3-R, S-methylpentadecanoic acid-dual myocardial singlephoton emission computed tomography. Am. J Cardiol 2004;93:685–88.
Poornima IG, Miller TD, Christian TF, et al. Utility of myocardial perfusion imaging in patients with low-risk treadmill scores. J Am Coll Cardiol 2004;43:194–9.
Hachamovitch R, Hayes SW, Friedman JD, Cohen I, Berman DS.Stress myocardial perfusion single-photon emission computed tomography is clinically effective and cost effective in risk stratification of patients with a high likelihood of coronary artery disease (CAD) but no known CAD. J Am Coll Cardiol 2004;43:200–88.
Beller GA, Watson DD. Risk stratification using stress myocardial perfusion imaging: don’t neglect the value of clinical variables. J Am Coll Cardiol 2004;43:209–12.
Thomas GS, Miyamoto MI, Morello AP III, et al. Technetium 99m sestamibi myocardial perfusion imaging predicts clinical outcome in the community outpatient setting: the nuclear utility in the community (NUC) study. J Am Coll Cardiol 2004;43:213–23.
Peltier M, Vancraeynest D, Pasquet A, et al. Assessment of the physiologic significance of coronary disease with dipyridamole real-time myocardial contrast echocardiography: comparison with technetium-99m sestamibi single-photon emission computed tomography and quantitative coronary angiography. J Am Coll Cardiol 2004;43:257–64.
Giedd KN, Bergmann SR. Myocardial perfusion imaging following percutaneous coronary intervention: the importance of restenosis, disease progression, and directed reintervention. J Am Coll Cardiol 2004;43:328–36.
Nelson C, McCrohon J, Khafagi F, et al. Impact of scar thickness on the assessment of viability using dobutamine echocardiography and thallium single-photon emission computed tomography: a comparison with contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging. J Am Coll Cardiol 2004;43:1248–56.
Sciagrà R, Giaccardi M, Porciani MC, et al. Myocardial perfusion imaging using gated SPECT in heart failure patients undergoing cardiac resynchronization therapy. J Nucl Med 2004;45:164–8.
Slart RH, Bax JJ, de Jong RM, et al. Comparison of gated PET with MRI for evaluation of left ventricular function in patients with coronary artery disease. J Nucl Med 2004;45:176–82.
Slomka Piotr J, Nishina H, Berman DS, et al. Automatic quantification of myocardial perfusion stress-rest change: a new measure of ischemia. J Nucl Med 2004;45:183–91.
Positron Emission Tomography
Stolen KQ, Kemppainen J, Kalliokoski KK, et al. Myocardial perfusion reserve and peripheral endothelial function in patients with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy. Am J Cardiol 2004;93:64–8.
Nowak B, Stellbrink C, Sinha AM, et al. Effects of cardiac resynchronization therapy on myocardial blood flow measured by oxygen-15 water positron emission tomography in idiopathicdilated cardiomyopathy and left bundle block. Am J Cardiol 2004;93:496–9.
Chen IY, Wu JC, Min J-J, et al. Micro-positron emission tomography imaging of cardiac gene expression in rats using bicistronic adenoviral vector-mediated gene delivery. Circulation 2004;109:1415–20.
Hasegawa S, Kusuoka H, Maruyama K, et al. Myocardial positron emission computed tomographic images obtained with fluorine-18 fluoro-2-deoxyglucose predict the response of idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy patients to beta-blockers. J Am Coll Cardiol 2004;43:224–33.
Yang H, Pu M, Rodriguez D, et al. Ischemic and viable myocardium in patients with non-Q-wave or Q-wave myocardial infarction and left ventricular dysfunction: a clinical study using positron emission tomography, echocardiography and electrocardiography. J Am Coll Cardiol 2004;43:592–8.
Schaefer WM, Lipke CSA, Nowak B, et al. Validation of QGS and 4D-MSPECT for quantification of left ventricular volumes and ejection fraction from gated 18F-FDG PET: comparison with cardiac MRI. J Nucl Med 2004;45:74–9.
Van der Weerdt AP, Boellaard R, Knaapen P, et al. Postinjection transmission scanning in myocardial 18F-FDG PET studies using both filtered backprojection and iterative reconstruction. J Nucl Med 2004;45:169–75.
Slart RHJA, Bax JJ, de Jong RM, et al. Comparison of gated PET with MRI for evaluation of left ventricular function in patients with coronary artery disease. J Nucl Med 2004;45:176–82.
Schindler TH, Nitzsche EU, Olschewski M, et al. PET-measured responses of MBF to cold pressor testing correlate with indices of coronary vasomotion on quantitative coronary angiography. J Nucl Med 2004;45:419–28.
Maschauer S, Prante O, Hoffmann M, Deichen JT, Kuwert T. Characterization of 18F-FDG uptake in human endothelial cells in vitro. J Nucl Med 2004;45:455–60.
Adrenergic Imaging
Kyuma M, Nakata T, Hashimoto A, et al. Incremental prognostic implications of brain natriuretic peptide, cardiac sympathetic nerve innervation, and noncardiac disorders in patients with heart failure. J Nucl Med 2004;45:155–63.
Momose M, Reder S, Raffel DM, et al. Evaluation of cardiac β-adrenoreceptor in the isolated perfused rat heart using (S)-11CCGP12388. J Nucl Med 2004;45:471–7.
Molecular Imaging
Halpern BS, Dahlbom M, Waldherr C, et al. Cardiac pacemakers and central venous lines can induce focal artifacts on CT-corrected PET images. J Nucl Med 2004;45:290–3.
Vascular Imaging
Johnson LL, Schofield LM, Weber DK, et al. Uptake of 111In-Z2D3 on SPECT imaging in a swine model of coronary stent restenosis correlated with cell proliferation. J Nucl Med 2004;45:294–9.
Antimyosin Imaging
Martin MER, Moya-Mur JL, Casanova M, et al. Role of noninvasive antimyosin imaging in infants and children with clinically suspected myocarditis. J Nucl Med 2004;45:429–37.
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Hendel, R.C. Journal of nuclear cardiology news update. J Nucl Cardiol 11, 518–520 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclcard.2003.12.003
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