The purpose of this document is to update the “ASNC Imaging Guidelines for Nuclear
Cardiology Procedures: Single photon-emission computed tomography” 1 in several areas …

A substantial proportion of patients with acute myocardial infarction develop clinical heart
failure, which remains a common and major healthcare burden. It has been shown that in …

Background The clinical significance of coronary-artery stenoses of moderate severity can
be difficult to determine. Myocardial fractional flow reserve (FFR) is a new index of the …

Background Recent studies indicate that magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) after the
administration of contrast material can be used to distinguish between reversible and …

The European procedural guidelines for radionuclide imaging of myocardial perfusion and
viability are presented in 13 sections covering patient information, radiopharmaceuticals …

Background—Previous animal studies have demonstrated that the transmural extent of
acute myocardial infarction defined by contrast-enhanced MRI (ceMRI) relates to early …

Background The clinical benefit of percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA)
as compared with coronary-artery bypass grafting (CABG) for patients with multivessel …

Objectives. This study evaluated the relative merits of the most frequently used techniques
for predicting improvement in regional contractile function after coronary revascularization in …

Background Studies of patients with coronary artery disease and left ventricular dysfunction
have shown that preoperative quantification of myocardial viability may be clinically useful to …

T he differentiation of viable from nonviable myo-cardium in patients with coronary artery dis-
ease and left ventriculardysfunction is an issue of increasing clinical relevance in the current …