Identification of patients at increased risk of first unheralded acute myocardial infarction by electron-beam computed tomography

…, NJ Lippolis, DJ Russo, A Zelinger, JJ Mahmarian - Circulation, 2000 - Am Heart Assoc
Background—There is a clear relationship between absolute calcium scores (CS) and
severity of coronary artery disease. However, hard coronary events have been shown to occur …

Severity of coronary artery calcification by electron beam computed tomography predicts silent myocardial ischemia

…, MS Verani, V Aquino, R Roberts, JJ Mahmarian - Circulation, 2000 - Am Heart Assoc
Background—Detection of subclinical coronary artery disease (CAD) before the development
of life-threatening cardiac complications has great potential clinical relevance. Electron …

Adenosine versus regadenoson comparative evaluation in myocardial perfusion imaging: results of the ADVANCE phase 3 multicenter international trial

…, RC Hendel, H Lieu, JJ Mahmarian… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2007 - Springer
Background Earlier phase 1 and 2 studies have shown that regadenoson has desirable
features as a stress agent for myocardial perfusion imaging. Methods and Results This …

Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) myocardial perfusion imaging guidelines: instrumentation, acquisition, processing, and interpretation

…, RJ Gropler, TA Holly, JJ Mahmarian… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2018 - Elsevier
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 in …

[PDF][PDF] Stress protocols and tracers

MJ Henzlova, MD Cerqueira, JJ Mahmarian… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2006 - Citeseer
1. Detection of obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD) in the following: a. Patients with an
intermediate pretest probability of CAD based on age, gender, and symptoms. b. Patients …

The coronary artery calcium score and stress myocardial perfusion imaging provide independent and complementary prediction of cardiac risk

…, LE Peterson, A Achari, CM Pratt, JJ Mahmarian - Journal of the American …, 2009 - jacc.org
Objectives : This study sought to examine the relationship between coronary artery calcium
score (CACS) and single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) results for …

A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of Ad5FGF-4 gene therapy and its effect on myocardial perfusion in patients with stable angina

CL Grines, MW Watkins, JJ Mahmarian… - Journal of the American …, 2003 - jacc.org
Objectives : The primary objective of this study was to determine whether intracoronary
administration of the adenoviral gene for fibroblast growth factor (Ad5FGF-4) can improve …

Normal stress-only versus standard stress/rest myocardial perfusion imaging: similar patient mortality with reduced radiation exposure

…, F Nabi, J Xu, U Raza, JJ Mahmarian - Journal of the American …, 2010 - jacc.org
Objectives : The aim of this study was to determine whether a normal stress-only single-photon
emission computed tomographic myocardial perfusion tomography (SPECT) study …

Multicenter clinical trial to evaluate the efficacy of correction for photon attenuation and scatter in SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging

…, GV Heller, H Kiat, MW Groch, JJ Mahmarian - Circulation, 1999 - Am Heart Assoc
Background—Soft tissue attenuation is a prominent cause of single-photon emission computed
tomography (SPECT) imaging artifacts, which may result in reduced diagnostic accuracy …

Myocardial perfusion and function: single photon emission computed tomography

…, R Taillefer, RP Ward, JJ Mahmarian - Journal of nuclear …, 2007 - Springer
Protocols for the various nuclear cardiology single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT)
acquisition studies are presented in the following pages (Tables 1-6). For each of …