Περιεχόμενα
Part I Ordering the Test: Nuclear Cardiology Procedures
1 SPECT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Robert C. Hendel
2 Cardiac Positron Emission Tomography. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Justin Lundbye
Part II Patient Selection, Which Patient?
3 Overview of Guidelines and Appropriate Use Criteria . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Katarina H. Nelson and Robert C. Hendel
4 Assessment of Patients with Suspected Coronary
Artery Disease . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Richard T. Ruffin Jr and Gary V. Heller
5 Evaluation of Patients with Known Coronary
Artery Disease . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Dimitrios Barmpouletos and Gary V. Heller
6 Preoperative Evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Niberto A. Moreno and Robert C. Hendel
7 The Role of Cardiac Nuclear Imaging in Heart Failure. . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Sanjeev U. Nair and Gary V. Heller
8 Myocardial Perfusion Imaging in Specific Patient Populations. . . . . . . . 65
Raja C. Pullatt and Gary V. Heller
Part III Test Performance: How to Do It
9 Exercise Stress Testing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Jacqueline V.A. Dawson and Robert C. Hendel
10 Pharmacologic Stress Testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Apurva O. Badheka and Robert C. Hendel
11 SPECT Radiopharmaceuticals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Vikas Tandon, Nadine Gauthier, and Terrence D. Ruddy
12 SPECT Instrumentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Jared H. Strydhorst, Ross A. Davies, and R. Glenn Wells
13 PET Radiopharmaceuticals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Jean N. DaSilva, Ana C. Valadiva, Ilias Mylonas, Tayebeh Hadizad,
Robert A. deKemp, and Rob S.B. Beanlands
14 PET Instrumentation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Jennifer M. Renaud, Rob S.B. Beanlands, and Robert A. deKemp
15 Radiation Safety. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Gary R. Small, Benjamin J.W. Chow, Rob S.B. Beanlands,
and Renée Hessian
Part IV Test Results: What Do They Mean?
16 Interpretation and Reporting of SPECT Myocardial
Perfusion Imaging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Robert C. Hendel
17 Diagnosis, Risk Stratification and Management of Ischemic
Heart Disease with Nuclear Cardiology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Tanyanan Tanawuttiwat and Robert C. Hendel
Part V Comparative Effectiveness of Nuclear Cardiology
18 Exercise Tolerance Testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Amyn Malik and Gary V. Heller
19 Echocardiography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Melissa J. Tracy and Robert C. Hendel
20 Cardiac Computed Tomography Imaging. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
Talhat Azemi and Gary V. Heller
21 Cardiac Magnetic Resonance (CMR) Imaging. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Talhat Azemi and Gary V. Heller
22 Cardiac Catheterization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Amyn Malik and Gary V. Heller
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217