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Current Opinion in Cardiology. 23:599-606
Purpose of review This review is meant as a balanced summary of the current state of cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) perfusion imaging in assessing alterations in myocardial blood flow due to coronary artery disease (CAD). We aim to provide first an
Autor:
James A. Arrighi, Vasken Dilsizian
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Current Opinion in Cardiology. 21:450-456
Purpose of review The assessment of myocardial viability provides important information that may guide therapeutic decisions in patients with coronary artery disease and left ventricular dysfunction. This review describes methods for assessing myocar
Autor:
Wojciech Mazur, Sherif F. Nagueh
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Current Opinion in Cardiology. 16:277-281
The long-term prognosis of patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy is highly variable, depending on the extent of myocardial viability and the success and completeness of the revascularization techniques used. Other important factors include left ventr
Autor:
Heller Gv, Mansoor Mr
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Current Opinion in Cardiology. 12:571-580
Stress myocardial perfusion imaging has become a mainstay in the noninvasive assessment of patients with known or suspected coronary artery disease for several compelling reasons. Radionuclide myocardial perfusion imaging can be performed using a var
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Current Opinion in Cardiology. 11:613-620
The concept of incremental value in prognosis and outcome of patients with coronary artery disease is important to the field of noninvasive imaging. Because these tests are expensive, they should be held to the standard of demonstrating a statistical
Autor:
Dipti Itchhaporia, Manuel D. Cerqueira
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Current Opinion in Cardiology. 10:650-655
With the availability of new 99mTc perfusion tracers, nuclear cardiology imaging techniques can provide information on myocardial blood flow and left ventricular function from a single imaging session. Ejection fraction, regional wall motion, and cha
Autor:
Todd D. Miller
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Current opinion in cardiology. 26(5)
PURPOSE OF REVIEW This review examines the diagnostic and prognostic performance of the standard exercise treadmill test (ETT) in comparison to stress imaging procedures. This topic is timely and relevant due to increasing healthcare expenditures and
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Current Opinion in Cardiology. 6:953-964
Important developments in the field of nuclear cardiac imaging include increasing use of single-photon emission computed tomography; the availability of pharmacologic stress testing; the introduction of newer technetium-labeled perfusion imaging agen
Autor:
John J. Mahmarian
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Current opinion in cardiology. 22(5)
Purpose of review To illustrate where the integration of computed tomography with myocardial perfusion single photon tomography may improve current diagnostic imaging paradigms and allow for enhanced risk stratification. Recent findings Computed tomo
Autor:
Sarkis B. Baghdasarian, Gary V. Heller
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Current opinion in cardiology. 20(5)
PURPOSE OF REVIEW The role of myocardial perfusion imaging in the diagnosis of coronary artery disease in various patient populations has been expanding. Recent literature from March 2004 to February 2005 has advanced the concept of attenuation corre