TY - JOUR
T1 - Nuclear medicine in the management of patients with heart failure
T2 - Guidance from an expert panel of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
AU - Peix, Amalia
AU - Mesquita, Claudio Tinoco
AU - Paez, Diana
AU - Pereira, Carlos Cunha
AU - Felix, Renata
AU - Gutierrez, Claudia
AU - Jaimovich, Rodrigo
AU - Ianni, Barbara Maria
AU - Soares, Jose
AU - Olaya, Pastor
AU - Rodriguez, Ma Victoria
AU - Flotats, Albert
AU - Giubbini, Raffaele
AU - Travin, Mark
AU - Garcia, Ernest V.
PY - 2014/8
Y1 - 2014/8
N2 - Heart failure is increasing worldwide at epidemic proportions, resulting in considerable disability, mortality, and increase in healthcare costs. Gated myocardial perfusion single photon emission computed tomography or PET imaging is the most prominent imaging modality capable of providing information on global and regional ventricular function, the presence of intraventricular synchronism, myocardial perfusion, and viability on the same test. In addition, 123I-mIBG scintigraphy is the only imaging technique approved by various regulatory agencies able to provide information regarding the adrenergic function of the heart. Therefore, both myocardial perfusion and adrenergic imaging are useful tools in the workup and management of heart failure patients. This guide is intended to reinforce the information on the use of nuclear cardiology techniques for the assessment of heart failure and associated myocardial disease.
AB - Heart failure is increasing worldwide at epidemic proportions, resulting in considerable disability, mortality, and increase in healthcare costs. Gated myocardial perfusion single photon emission computed tomography or PET imaging is the most prominent imaging modality capable of providing information on global and regional ventricular function, the presence of intraventricular synchronism, myocardial perfusion, and viability on the same test. In addition, 123I-mIBG scintigraphy is the only imaging technique approved by various regulatory agencies able to provide information regarding the adrenergic function of the heart. Therefore, both myocardial perfusion and adrenergic imaging are useful tools in the workup and management of heart failure patients. This guide is intended to reinforce the information on the use of nuclear cardiology techniques for the assessment of heart failure and associated myocardial disease.
KW - MIBG
KW - PET imaging
KW - coronary artery disease
KW - dilated cardiomyopathy
KW - gated myocardial perfusion SPECT
KW - heart failure
KW - left ventricular dyssynchrony
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U2 - 10.1097/MNM.0000000000000143
DO - 10.1097/MNM.0000000000000143
M3 - Review article
C2 - 24781009
AN - SCOPUS:84903791289
SN - 0143-3636
VL - 35
SP - 818
EP - 823
JO - Nuclear Medicine Communications
JF - Nuclear Medicine Communications
IS - 8
ER -