Key Features
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Features all the latest cardiovascular nuclear medicine studies with practical, evidence-based implications for personalized patient evaluation and treatment.
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Presents a consistent, patient-centered approach using integrated case vignettes correlated with specific nuclear medicine imaging findings. Discusses patient assessment criteria, risk factor criteria, pathology, evaluation criteria, outcomes, and other clinical implications.
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Covers a full range of imaging technologies, including SPECT/CT, PET/CT, and CT/MR hybrid radionuclide cardiovascular imaging studies.
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Addresses emerging clinical applications of nuclear imaging techniques for precision-based medicine, including targeted molecular imaging and cell therapies.
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Includes sections on instrumentation/principles of imaging; protocols and interpretation; applications in coronary artery disease, special populations, and heart failure; artificial intelligence, and more.
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Contains guidelines and appropriate use documents to provide appropriate context for clinicians.
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Features hundreds of high-quality figures including multimodal cardiac imaging studies, anatomic illustrations, and graphs.
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Provides Key Point summaries, 50 procedural videos, and 100 multiple-choice questions and answers to reinforce understanding and facilitate review.
| ISBN | 9780323763042 |
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| Product Format | Ebook |
| Publication Date | 2021 |
| Author Information | Edited by Marcelo Fernando Di Carli, MD, Seltzer Family Professor of Radiology and Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Executive Director, Cardiovascular Imaging, Chief, Division of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts |
| Published Reviews | Doody's Core Titles® 2022 "This book provides the most up-to-date, evidence-based, and patient-centered approach to nuclear studies, which aims to help physicians with personalized patient evaluation and treatment...This book is an excellent guide for training and practicing physicians dealing with nuclear cardiology." ©Doody's Review Service, 2022, Sathvika Reddy Gaddam, MD (East Tennessee State University Quillen College of Medicine) Doody's Score: 4 Stars! |
| Table of Content | 1 Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT) 2 Positron Emission Tomography (PET) 3 Principles of myocardial blood flow quantification with SPECT and PET imaging 4 Radiopharmaceuticals for SPECT and PET and imaging protocols 5 Recognizing and preventing artifacts with SPECT and PET imaging 6 Approaches to minimize patient dose in nuclear cardiology 7 Patient with new onset stable chest pain syndrome 8 Patient with known stable coronary artery disease 9 Patient with prior revascularization 10 Pre-operative risk evaluation: when and how? 11 Imaging in Patients with Acute Chest Pain in the Emergency Department 12 Assessing the biology of high risk plaque features with molecular imaging 13 Patient with suspected coronary microvascular dysfunction 14 Patient with cardiometabolic disease (diabetes mellitus and obesity) 15 Patients with chronic kidney disease 16 Women with suspected ischemic heart disease 17 Risk stratification and cost-effectiveness of nuclear scintigraphy in stable CAD 18 The patient with new onset heart failure 19 Metabolic remodeling in heart failure 20 Patient with ischemic cardiomyopathy (ischemia and viability) 21 Novel approaches for the evaluation of arrhythmic risk 22 Screening for transplant vasculopathy 23 Patient with known or suspected myocardial inflammation (cardiac sarcoidosis) 24 Patient with known or suspected amyloidosis 25 Applications of nuclear imaging in cardio-oncology (cardiac function, myocarditis, radiation vasculopathy, etc) 26 Molecular imaging of myocardial infarction and remodeling 27 Patient with mechanical dyssynchrony 28 Aortic stenosis & Bioprosthetic Valve Degeneration 29 Infective endocarditis 30 Large vessel vasculitis 31 Peripheral arterial disease 32 Artificial Intelligence in Nuclear Cardiology |
| Publication Date | 17-11-2021 |
| Pages | 444 |
| Trim | 276 x 216 (8 1/2 x 10 7/8) |
| deltacomm1code | Electronic Book |
