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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12350-010-9233-3 | DOI Listing |
J Cardiovasc Magn Reson
July 2025
Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, University of Zurich, Switzerland; Department of Cardiology, University Heart Center, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; Institute for Biomedical engineering, University and ETH Zurich, S
Background: False-negative cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) perfusion results may arise from inadequate stress responses, even when patients exhibit an adequate clinical or heart-rate response to adenosine. This study aimed to explore the ability of qualitative and quantitative splenic switch-off markers to differentiate false-negative from true-negative adenosine stress-perfusion CMR findings, in a cohort where fractional flow reserve (FFR) was used to adjudicate lesion significance.
Methods: Patients with known or suspected coronary artery disease (CAD) from five centers underwent 3D adenosine stress perfusion CMR and coronary angiography with FFR.
Heart Fail Clin
July 2025
Division of Cardiology, Hartford Hospital, 80 Seymour Street, Hartford, CT 06102, USA. Electronic address:
Stress-first approaches to myocardial perfusion imaging provide diagnostically and prognostically accurate perfusion data equivalent to a full rest-stress study while saving time in the imaging laboratory and reducing the radiation exposure to patients and laboratory staff. Unfortunately, implementing a stress-first approach in a nuclear cardiology laboratory involves significant challenges such as the need for attenuation correction, triage of patients to an appropriate protocol, real-time review of stress images, and consideration of differential reimbursement. Despite it being best practice for both the patient and the laboratory, these impediments have kept the proportions of studies performed stress-first relatively unchanged in North America and world-wide in the last 10 years.
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May 2025
Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center, Houston, TX, USA. Electronic address:
Background: Current guidelines recommend stress-only single photon emission computed tomography myocardial perfusion imaging (SPECT MPI) in select patients to reduce time, cost, and radiation. However, stress-only imaging remains underutilized.
Objectives: We assessed techniques to increase the adoption of stress-only SPECT MPI, specifically evaluating whether prone positioning and CT-based attenuation correction (AC) reduce the need for additional rest imaging.
Int J Cardiovasc Imaging
March 2025
Department of Nuclear Medicine, Hannover Medical School, Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1, 30625, Hannover, Germany.
Solid-state detector single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) enables the acquisition of dynamic data for calculation of myocardial blood flow (MBF) and myocardial flow reserve (MFR). Here, we report about our experiences on routine clinical use and robustness using Tc-99 m-sestamibi and Tc-99 m-tetrofosmin. 307 patients underwent dynamic list-mode myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) and standard static MPI for clinical workup of coronary artery disease on a dedicated cardiac SPECT camera.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPlant Cell Environ
June 2025
Department of Biotechnology, University of Verona, Verona, Italy.
Calcium (Ca)-dependent signalling plays a well-characterised role in the perception and response mechanisms to environmental stimuli in plant cells. In the context of a constantly changing environment, it is fundamental to understand how crop yield and microalgal biomass productivity are affected by external factors. Ca signalling is known to be important in different physiological processes in microalgae but many of these signal transduction pathways still need to be characterised.
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