Cardiac PET/Computed Tomography Applications and Cardiovascular Outcome - 22/06/15
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Cardiac PET/computed tomography (CT) in conjunction with different blood flow tracers is increasingly applied for the assessment of myocardial perfusion and myocardial flow reserve (MFR) in the detection of coronary artery disease (CAD). The ability of PET/CT to noninvasively determine regional myocardial blood flow at rest and during vasomotor stress allows the calculation of the MFR, which carries important prognostic information in patients with subclinical forms of cardiomyopathy. The measured MFR optimizes the identification and characterization of the extent and severity of CAD burden, and contributes to the flow-limiting effect of single lesions in multivessel CAD.
El texto completo de este artículo está disponible en PDF.Keywords : Coronary circulation, CAD, Hibernating myocardium, Myocardial blood flow, Myocardial flow reserve, PET/CT, Prognosis, Sarcoid disease
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| Disclosures: Dr Schindler acknowledges all sources of funding as follows: Departmental fund (no. 175470) from Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, and Research grant no. 3200B0-122237 from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF; Dr Schindler), with contributions of the Clinical Research Center, University Hospital, and Faculty of Medicine, Geneva and the Louis-Jeantet Foundation; Swiss Heart Foundation; and Gustave and Simone Prévot fund. |
Vol 10 - N° 3
P. 441-459 - juillet 2015 Regresar al número
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