The future of cardiac molecular imaging

G Farber, KE Boczar, CC Wiefels, JGE Zelt… - Seminars in nuclear …, 2020 - Elsevier
Molecular imaging with positron emission tomography (PET) and single-photon emission
computed tomography (SPECT) serves numerous applications in clinical cardiology and …

Ventricular arrhythmia substrate distribution and its relation to sympathetic innervation in nonischemic cardiomyopathy patients

HS Chen, C Jungen, Y Kimura… - Clinical …, 2022 - jacc.org
Background Nonischemic cardiomyopathy patients referred for catheter ablation of
ventricular arrhythmias (VAs) typically have either inferolateral (ILS) or anteroseptal (ASS) …

Positron emission tomography imaging of regional versus global myocardial sympathetic activity to improve risk stratification in patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy

JGE Zelt, JZ Wang, LM Mielniczuk… - Circulation …, 2021 - Am Heart Assoc
Background: Current risk assessment approaches fail to identify the majority of patients at
risk of sudden cardiac arrest (SCA). Noninvasive imaging of the cardiac sympathetic …

Image integration using intracardiac echography and three-dimensional reconstruction for mapping and ablation of atrial and ventricular arrhythmias

AJ Restrepo, TM Dickfeld - Cardiac electrophysiology …, 2021 - cardiacep.theclinics.com
Intracardiac echocardiography (ICE) has transformed the way cardiac electrophysiologists
approach arrhythmias by improving their understanding of the cardiac anatomy and the …

[HTML][HTML] Can the promise of radionuclide cardiac innervation imaging be fulfilled?

MI Travin - Journal of Nuclear Cardiology, 2022 - Springer
In the current era, nuclear cardiology, despite its potential to uniquely assess underlying
fundamental processes of cardiac pathophysiology, remains predominantly stress …

[HTML][HTML] Reentrant Arrhythmias

J Kaplan, A Kanwal, V Lala - 2020 - europepmc.org
Objectives: Outline the stepwise approach for the evaluation of reentrant arrhythmias.
Summarize treatment modalities available for a patient with a reentrant arrhythmia. Review …

[HTML][HTML] 40 Years Anniversary of Cardiac 123I-mIBG Imaging: State of the Heart

DO Verschure, K Nakajima, AF Jacobson… - Current Cardiovascular …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review This narrative review reflects on the body of evidence on
cardiac 123 Im IBG imaging that has accumulated since the introduction in the late 1970s …

Metabolic heterogeneous zone assessed by 18FDG‐PET is predictive of postablation mortality in patients with ventricular tachycardia

B Miller, R Vunnam, O Mesubi, MF Smith… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose We sought to study the predictive value of the metabolic heterogeneous zone (HZ)
as determined by 18Fluorodeoxyglucose (18FDG) positron emission tomography (PET) …

[HTML][HTML] Imaging Modality Selection in Cardiac Ablation

C Ngo, N Akoum - The Journal of Innovations in Cardiac Rhythm …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Catheter ablation as a treatment method for both ventricular and atrial arrhythmias has
evolved significantly over the past 40 years since it was first performed in humans. This …

[HTML][HTML] PET Imaging of Regional vs Global Myocardial Sympathetic Activity to Improve Risk Stratification in Patients with Ischemic Cardiomyopathy

JGE Zelt, JZ Wang, LM Mielniczuk… - Circulation …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: Current risk assessment approaches fail to identify the majority of patients at
risk of sudden cardiac arrest (SCA). Non-invasive imaging of the cardiac sympathetic …