{"title":"Diagnostic and Prognostic Performances of Microvascular Resistance Reserve in Patients With Suspected or Known Coronary Artery Disease","authors":"Neng Dai MD, PhD, Xianglin Tang MD, Junbo Ge MD.","doi":"10.1016/j.nuclcard.2025.102383","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.nuclcard.2025.102383","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16476,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Nuclear Cardiology","volume":"50 ","pages":"Article 102383"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144913679","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":"Influence of Renal Dysfunction on Non-Invasive Test Positivity in Stable Chest Pain: Results from the PROMISE Trial","authors":"Vignesh Chidambaram MD MPH , Amudha Kumar MD , Munthir Mansour MD , Subhi J. Al'Aref MD","doi":"10.1016/j.nuclcard.2025.102311","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.nuclcard.2025.102311","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16476,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Nuclear Cardiology","volume":"50 ","pages":"Article 102311"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144911607","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}
Brian Ssembajjwe MD, Ramy Sedhom MD, Golda Harvatin MD, Katherine Lee MD, Helme Silvet MD, Ahmed Athar MD.
{"title":"Resolution of a Large Fixed Defect on Technetium-99m (TC-99m) Sestamibi SPECT After PCI","authors":"Brian Ssembajjwe MD, Ramy Sedhom MD, Golda Harvatin MD, Katherine Lee MD, Helme Silvet MD, Ahmed Athar MD.","doi":"10.1016/j.nuclcard.2025.102392","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.nuclcard.2025.102392","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16476,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Nuclear Cardiology","volume":"50 ","pages":"Article 102392"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144913687","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}
Jennifer M. Renaud MSc , Jonathan B. Moody PhD , Michael D. Vanderver MSA, CNMT , Alexis Poitrasson-Rivière PhD , Christopher J. Buckley PhD , Edward P. Ficaro PhD , Venkatesh L. Murthy MD, PhD
{"title":"Diagnostic performance of 18F-flurpiridaz PET myocardial perfusion imaging with total perfusion deficit quantification","authors":"Jennifer M. Renaud MSc , Jonathan B. Moody PhD , Michael D. Vanderver MSA, CNMT , Alexis Poitrasson-Rivière PhD , Christopher J. Buckley PhD , Edward P. Ficaro PhD , Venkatesh L. Murthy MD, PhD","doi":"10.1016/j.nuclcard.2025.102266","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.nuclcard.2025.102266","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Purpose</h3><div><span>To assess the diagnostic performance of </span><sup>18</sup><span>F-flupiridaz positron emission tomography<span><span> (PET) myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) for </span>coronary artery disease detection using total perfusion deficit (TPD), an automated metric of combined disease extent and severity.</span></span></div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div><span>Flurpiridaz relative perfusion images and quantitative coronary angiography data from the initial phase III trial were evaluated using receiver operating characteristic analysis at separate endpoints of ≥70% </span>stenosis and ≥50% stenosis, to determine the diagnostic performance of TPD at per-patient (global LV) and per-vessel levels. TPD results at both endpoints were compared with the performance of visual scores and defect extent values available from two previous publications.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Using a normal perfusion database that was created with the data of 25 patients from the flurpiridaz trial population, TPD was calculated in the remaining 729 trial patients. At the threshold of ≥70% stenosis, TPD was observed to have similar (<em>P</em><span> ≥ .05) per-patient diagnostic performance (74% accuracy) to visual scoring from previous publications (75%, 71%), as well as defect extent (72%). At the per-vessel level, the TPD achieved similar performance to defect extent in the left anterior descending artery (LAD) and left circumflex artery (LCx) (79%, 74% vs 80%, 72% accuracy) with slightly higher accuracy in the right coronary artery (RCA) (77% vs 72%, </span><em>P</em> = .03), and similar performance to visual scoring in the LAD and RCA (77, 79% vs 76%, 76% accuracy) with marginally lower performance in the LCx (74% vs 79%, <em>P</em> = .03). Similar results were observed at the ≥50% obstructive disease endpoint.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>Automated TPD demonstrated similar diagnostic performance for global and regional flurpiridaz PET MPI, respectively, to visual scoring and defect extent quantification.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":16476,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Nuclear Cardiology","volume":"50 ","pages":"Article 102266"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144317130","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":"Automated quantification of perfusion deficit with flurpiridaz: A tool to curb the learning curve?","authors":"Matthieu Pelletier-Galarneau MD MSc","doi":"10.1016/j.nuclcard.2025.102274","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.nuclcard.2025.102274","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16476,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Nuclear Cardiology","volume":"50 ","pages":"Article 102274"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144829083","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}
Mauro Namías PhD , Aley Palau San Pedro M.Sc. , Laura T. Pelegrina PhD , Calderón Brenner Laura MD , Roberto N. Agüero MD , Roxana Campisi MD, MASNC , Ricardo Geronazzo MD
{"title":"Feasibility of Myocardial Blood Flow Quantification From Single Time Point Conventional 99mTc-MIBI SPECT/CT and Its Comparison With 13N-Ammonia PET/CT: Preliminary Results","authors":"Mauro Namías PhD , Aley Palau San Pedro M.Sc. , Laura T. Pelegrina PhD , Calderón Brenner Laura MD , Roberto N. Agüero MD , Roxana Campisi MD, MASNC , Ricardo Geronazzo MD","doi":"10.1016/j.nuclcard.2025.102387","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.nuclcard.2025.102387","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16476,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Nuclear Cardiology","volume":"50 ","pages":"Article 102387"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144911695","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}