Journal of Nuclear Cardiology最新文献

{"title":"Benefit of 82-Rubidium Positron Emission Tomography for risk stratification in a patient with Intrapericardial diaphragmatic hernia.","authors":"Banu SathyaMurthi, Sruthi Sarish, Muhammad Arsalan Khan, Parthiban Arumugam","doi":"10.1016/j.nuclcard.2024.102070","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.nuclcard.2024.102070","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16476,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Nuclear Cardiology","volume":" ","pages":"102070"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142622255","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Dawn of the cardiac PET era","authors":"Venkatesh L. Murthy MD, PhD","doi":"10.1016/j.nuclcard.2024.102055","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.nuclcard.2024.102055","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16476,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Nuclear Cardiology","volume":"41 ","pages":"Article 102055"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142813351","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Quantifying progress: Myocardial blood flow measurements as catalyst for enhanced CAD management","authors":"Marcelo F. Di Carli MD, MASNC","doi":"10.1016/j.nuclcard.2024.102080","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.nuclcard.2024.102080","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16476,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Nuclear Cardiology","volume":"41 ","pages":"Article 102080"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142813352","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Splenic switch-off to assess for vasodilator non-responsiveness","authors":"Phillip Lim MD , Vikram Agarwal MD, MPH , Krishna K. Patel MD, MSc","doi":"10.1016/j.nuclcard.2024.102067","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.nuclcard.2024.102067","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16476,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Nuclear Cardiology","volume":"41 ","pages":"Article 102067"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142545980","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"How to differentiate obstructive from non-obstructive CAD with PET: Developments in high-resolution regional quantification of MBF and MFR","authors":"Jennifer M. Renaud , Mouaz H. Al-Mallah , Prem Soman , Robert A. deKemp , Rob S.B. Beanlands , Parthiban Arumugam , Ian S. Armstrong , John O. Prior , Chaitanya Madamanchi , Sascha N. Goonewardena , Alexis Poitrasson-Rivière , Jonathan B. Moody , Edward P. Ficaro , Venkatesh L. Murthy","doi":"10.1016/j.nuclcard.2024.102023","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.nuclcard.2024.102023","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16476,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Nuclear Cardiology","volume":"41 ","pages":"Article 102023"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142046825","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Imaging quality in nuclear cardiology: The responsibility is with us all","authors":"Lawrence M. Phillips MD, MASNC","doi":"10.1016/j.nuclcard.2024.102054","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.nuclcard.2024.102054","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16476,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Nuclear Cardiology","volume":"41 ","pages":"Article 102054"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143132456","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"CME INSTRUCTIONS: Cardiac positron emission tomography and other modalities for coronary artery disease assessment: A snapshot from the medicare data","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.nuclcard.2024.102076","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.nuclcard.2024.102076","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16476,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Nuclear Cardiology","volume":"41 ","pages":"Article 102076"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143132478","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Use of a single-item exercise questionnaire predicts prognostic risk among patients undergoing stress PET-MPI","authors":"Keiichiro Kuronuma ,&nbsp;Alan Rozanski ,&nbsp;Donghee Han ,&nbsp;Rebekah Park ,&nbsp;Guadalupe Flores Tomasino ,&nbsp;Sean W. Hayes ,&nbsp;Louise Thomson ,&nbsp;Damini Dey ,&nbsp;John D. Friedman ,&nbsp;Piotr J. Slomka ,&nbsp;Daniel S. Berman","doi":"10.1016/j.nuclcard.2024.102065","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.nuclcard.2024.102065","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>Exercise activity reduces mortality and favorably influences mediators of risk, including myocardial flow reserve (MFR) and chronotropic responsiveness. Comprehensive research regarding the relationship between exercise activity, MFR, and chronotropic response to pharmacological stress, as assessed by heart rate response (HRR) among patients undergoing PET myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) has not been performed. Thus, we aimed to evaluate the relationship between exercise activity as assessed by a practical single-item questionnaire, MFR and HRR, and longitudinal clinical risk.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>We studied outpatients who underwent pharmacological stress rubidium-82. PET-MPI and answered a self-reported one-item exercise activity questionnaire (0–10 scale) at the time of PET-MPI. HRR was calculated by the following equation: (stress HR-rest HR)/rest HR∗100 (%). The primary outcome was death or myocardial infarction.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Of 1686 patients, 221 (13%) patients had hard events during our mean follow up of 3.8 years. Patients were divided into four groups: no/minimal exercise (n = 551), low exercise (n = 468), moderate exercise (n = 485), and high exercise (n = 182) based on the questionnaire. MFR and HRR increased with exercise activity in a stepwise manner. By Cox analysis adjusted for clinical and PET-MPI variables including MFR and HRR, exercise activity was independently associated with hard events (HR [95%CI] per activity scale, .95 [.91-.99]; <em>P</em> = .028).</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>Patients with higher exercise activity assessed by a practical single-item questionnaire had higher MFR and HRR. Exercise activity was an independent predictor of hard events in patients undergoing PET-MPI. Because of its ease of use, this single-item questionnaire should be applied among patients undergoing stress MPI.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":16476,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Nuclear Cardiology","volume":"41 ","pages":"Article 102065"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142502314","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Clinical correlates of a single-item physical activity questionnaire among patients undergoing stress SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging","authors":"Alan Rozanski MD ,&nbsp;Heidi Gransar MS ,&nbsp;Robert J.H. Miller MD ,&nbsp;Donghee Han MD ,&nbsp;Sean Hayes MD ,&nbsp;John Friedman MD, MPH ,&nbsp;Louise Thomson MD ,&nbsp;Daniel Berman MD","doi":"10.1016/j.nuclcard.2024.102066","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.nuclcard.2024.102066","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>There has been an increasing call for employing ultrashort exercise activity questionnaires as a clinical “vital sign”. To-date, this has not been applied to patients undergoing cardiac stress testing.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>We evaluated 1136 patients who completed a one-item exercise questionnaire before undergoing stress SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI). This question asked patients to grade how much they exercise during daily life on a 11-point scale (0 = none, 10 = always). Patients were divided into four exercise activity groups based on their response: no, low, moderate, and high exercise activity. The results of this questionnaire were compared with patients’ clinical risk profile, mode of stress testing (exercise vs pharmacologic), and exercise treadmill duration.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>We noted a stepwise inverse relationship between exercise activity and patients’ frequency of hypertension, diabetes, and obesity (<em>P</em> &lt; .001 for each). Patients with no reported exercise activity were more likely to complain of dyspnea. There was a stepwise increase in the number of patients performing treadmill exercise with increasing reported exercise activity (<em>P</em> &lt; .001). The duration on treadmill exercise increased in stepwise fashion with higher patient reported exercise activity (<em>P</em> &lt; .001).</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>Our single-item, self-reported questionnaire was correlated with patients’ risk profiles, their mode of stress testing, and cardiorespiratory fitness. These correlates, along with the pragmatic nature of this ultrashort questionnaire, and its built-in identification of patients who may warrant exercise counseling, augurs for adopting ultrashort questionnaires regarding exercise activity among patients undergoing stress MPI, and other cardiac imaging tests where functional capacity is not routinely assessed.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":16476,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Nuclear Cardiology","volume":"41 ","pages":"Article 102066"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142564386","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Slow or fast infusion profiles for Rubidium-82–What is the fuzz about?","authors":"Martin Lyngby Lassen PhD,&nbsp;Philip Hasbak MD, DMSc","doi":"10.1016/j.nuclcard.2024.102068","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.nuclcard.2024.102068","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16476,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Nuclear Cardiology","volume":"41 ","pages":"Article 102068"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142813353","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}