KEY POINTS • Transthoracic echocardiography and CT-AVC are the current mainstream modalities for aortic stenosis evaluation, but PET imaging is emerging as a novel molecular imaging technique for assessing disease…
KEY POINTS • Radionuclide and multimodality imaging are essential to the care of patients at risk for incident cardiovascular disease during or after cancer treatment, either because of preexisting cardiovascular…
KEY POINTS • Nuclear cardiology currently evolves from assessing physiologic function and perfusion toward an interrogation of molecular pathways and pathophysiologic alterations at a (sub)cellular level. • Given a biphasic…
KEY POINTS • Clinical manifestations of CS include heart block, ventricular arrythmias, SCD, and HF. • Among patients with biopsy-proven or a clinical diagnosis of extracardiac sarcoidosis, any signs or…
KEY POINTS • Cardiac amyloidosis is often underdiagnosed, misdiagnosed, or diagnosed late in the natural course of the disease. • Accurate diagnosis and typing of cardiac amyloidosis are both critical…
KEY POINTS • Current conventional methods to assess arrhythmic risk, including their guidance for implantation of a cardioverter defibrillator, have recognized shortcomings. • Radionuclide imaging can enhance other methods to…
KEY POINTS • CAV remains a major limitation for the long-term success of cardiac allografts. • The high prevalence of renal dysfunction has limited the use of invasive coronary angiography….
KEY POINTS • In HF patients, CAD may be causal, contributory, or coincidental. The determination of the role of CAD in the patient’s cardiomyopathy is essential to determine the potential…
KEY POINTS • Myocardial metabolism is inherently and intimately related to cardiac function. • The heart is a metabolic omnivore that uses multiple different substrates for the generation of energy…
KEY POINTS • Radionuclide MPI using SPECT or PET techniques is a widely used approach to identify the presence of CAD-related perfusion abnormalities and assess LV function. • There exists…
