The patient with new-onset heart failure
KEY POINTS • Noninvasive imaging plays an important role in the evaluation of patients with new-onset HF. • Documentation of angiographic CAD is often a first-line test and is supported…
Patient with chronic kidney disease
KEY POINTS • CVD is highly prevalent in patients with CKD. Both conditions seem to worsen each other’s prognosis and complicate most interventions. • The most common cause of death…
Women with suspected ischemic heart disease
KEY POINTS • Heart disease remains the number one cause of death in women worldwide. • Compared with men, women with symptoms consistent with IHD often present without obstructive CAD…
Patients with suspected coronary microvascular dysfunction
KEY POINTS • CMD can be diagnosed invasively or through multiple noninvasive methods, including PET and CMR MPI and Doppler echocardiography. • CMD is highly prevalent in patients with concomitant…
Patient with cardiometabolic disease
KEY POINTS • Metabolic diseases are independently associated with increased CVD risk. • SPECT MPI is limited by soft-tissue attenuation in obese individuals; however, imaging techniques including prone and gated…
Assessing the biology of high-risk plaque features with molecular imaging
KEY POINTS • Nuclear imaging with PET and SPECT can be used to study the biologic mechanisms that underlie high-risk atherosclerotic plaque features. • High-risk plaque features targeted by nuclear…
Imaging in patients with acute chest pain in the emergency department
KEY POINTS • Chest pain is one of the most common ED chief complaints and represents approximately 5% of all ED visits. • Although triage of low-risk and high-risk patients…
Recognizing and preventing artifacts with SPECT and PET imaging
KEY POINTS • Radionuclide imaging artifacts are common and can lead to false positive results, decreasing the accuracy of the study. • SPECT and PET imaging artifacts are related to…
Applications of nuclear cardiology in known stable coronary artery disease
KEY POINTS • Exercise testing with MPI is preferred for evaluating symptomatic patients with known CAD to establish a link between symptoms and perfusion defects and for optimal risk stratification….
Patient with prior revascularization
KEY POINTS • Coronary revascularization with CABG or PCI is a palliative intervention strategy associated with residual risks and the need for both secondary prevention lifestyle and medical therapies and…
