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Quantitative cardiac magnetic resonance standardized signal intensity comparison in dilated cardiomyopathy vs. cardiac sarcoidosis
BackgroundDilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) and cardiac sarcoidosis (CS) manifest unique late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) patterns on cardiac magnetic...
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Test–retest Assessment of Biventricular Myocardial Oxidative Metabolism and Perfusion in Pulmonary Hypertension Patients Using 11C-acetate PET Imaging: A Pilot Study
Purpose11C-acetate PET is used to measure biventricular oxygen myocardial consumption rate (MVO2) and myocardial blood flow (MBF) changes associated...
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Potential clinical utility of 68Ga-DOTATATE PET/CT for detection and response assessment in cardiac sarcoidosis
BackgroundSomatostatin receptor is expressed in sarcoid granulomas, and preliminary clinical studies have shown that myocardial sarcoidosis can be...
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Hot spot imaging in cardiovascular diseases: an information statement from SNMMI, ASNC, and EANM
This information statement from the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, American Society of Nuclear Cardiology, and European...
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Myocardial Blood Flow Quantification with PET/CT: Applications
Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the leading cause of death in the USA and worldwide.
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Left ventricular mural thrombus appearing as a photopenic defect on myocardial viability PET imaging
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Diagnostic accuracy of SPECT and PET myocardial perfusion imaging in patients with left bundle branch block or ventricular-paced rhythm
BackgroundThe difference in diagnostic accuracy of coronary artery disease (CAD) between vasodilator SPECT and PET myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI)...
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Feasibility of somatostatin receptor-targeted imaging for detection of myocardial inflammation: A pilot study
BackgroundGallium-68 Dotatate binds preferentially to somatostatin receptor (sstr) subtype-2 (sstr-2) on inflammatory cells. We aimed at...
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Advanced cardiovascular imaging for the evaluation of cardiac sarcoidosis
Cardiac sarcoidosis (CS) remains an intriguing infiltrating disorder and one of the most important forms of inflammatory cardiomyopathy....
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Is there a role for cardiac positron emission tomography in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy?
Coronary microvascular dysfunction and, its functional consequence, myocardial ischemia are common pathologic features in patients with hypertrophic...
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Role of PET to evaluate coronary microvascular dysfunction in non-ischemic cardiomyopathies
Coronary microvascular dysfunction (CMD) can result from structural and functional abnormalities at the intramural and small coronary vessel level...
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Targeted Nuclear Imaging Probes for Cardiac Amyloidosis
Purpose of ReviewThe aim of the present manuscript is to review the latest advancements of radionuclide molecular imaging in the diagnosis and...
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Isolated cardiac sarcoidosis: A focused review of an under-recognized entity
There is accumulating evidence for the existence of a phenotype of isolated cardiac sarcoidosis (ICS), or sarcoidosis that only involves the heart....
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Apparent left ventricular cavity dilatation during PET/CT in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: Clinical predictors and potential mechanisms
BackgroundApparent left ventricular cavity dilatation (LVCD) in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is an incompletely understood...
