Nuclear Cardiology and Multimodal Cardiovascular Imaging: A Companion to Braunwald's Heart Disease

by Marcelo Fernando Di Carli MD (Editor)

Overview

Recent years have seen numerous advances in cardiovascular nuclear medicine technology, leading to more precise diagnoses and treatment and an expanded understanding of the molecular basis for cardiac disease. Nuclear Cardiology and Multimodal Cardiovascular Imaging is a one-stop, comprehensive guide to the diagnostic and clinical implications of this complex and increasingly important technology. Part of the Braunwald family of renowned cardiology references, it provides cutting-edge coverage of multimodal cardiac imaging along with case vignettes and integrated teaching content—ideal for cardiologists, cardiology fellows, radiologists, and nuclear medicine physicians.

• Features all the latest cardiovascular nuclear medicine studies with practical, evidence-based implications for personalized patient evaluation and treatment.

• 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.

• Covers a full range of imaging technologies, including SPECT/CT, PET/CT, and CT/MR hybrid radionuclide cardiovascular imaging studies.

• Addresses emerging clinical applications of nuclear imaging techniques for precision-based medicine, including targeted molecular imaging and cell therapies.

• Includes sections on instrumentation/principles of imaging; protocols and interpretation; applications in coronary artery disease, special populations, and heart failure; artificial intelligence, and more.

• Contains guidelines and appropriate use documents to provide appropriate context for clinicians.

• Features hundreds of high-quality figures including multimodal cardiac imaging studies, anatomic illustrations, and graphs.

• Provides Key Point summaries, 50 procedural videos, and 100 multiple-choice questions and answers to reinforce understanding and facilitate review.

• Enhanced eBook version included with purchase, which allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780323763035
Publisher:	Elsevier Health Sciences
Publication date:	01/20/2022
Pages:	496
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 10.88(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

1. Evaluating Myocardial Perfusion SPECT
2. Interpretation, Reporting and Guidelines
3. Image Artifacts
4. Radionuclide Angiography
5. Choice of Stress Test
6. Use in Stable patients with Known or Suspected CAD
7. Serial Testing
8. Patients with PCI and CABG
9. Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome
10. Risk Stratification in Non-Cardiac Surgery
11. MPI of Special Patient Groups
12. Patients with Heart Failure and Cardiomyopathy
13. Other Forms of Heart Disease
14. Patients with Chest Pain
15. Viability Assessment
16. Extra-cardiac Incidental Findings
17. Newer Tools for Assessment of Heart Failure
18. Improving SPECT MPI Efficiency and Reducing Radiation
19. Myocardial Perfusion SPECT/CT: The Added Value of CT Imaging
20. Cardiac PET and PET/CT: Artifacts and Tracers

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Editorial 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!

From the Publisher

Reviewer: Sathvika Reddy Gaddam, MD (East Tennessee State University Quillen College of Medicine)
Description: This book is a comprehensive guide to nuclear cardiology. It is part of the Braunwald's Heart Disease family of cardiology reference textbooks. The authors are well recognized nationally and internationally.
Purpose: 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.
Audience: This book is a valuable resource for cardiologists, cardiology fellows, radiologists, and nuclear medicine physicians and trainees.
Features: This book provides an overview of instrumentation, protocols, and interpretation of cardiac SPECT and PET imaging. There are dedicated chapters on applications of nuclear studies in coronary artery disease, heart failure, and special patient populations with chronic kidney disease, microvascular dysfunction, and cardiometabolic disease. Each chapter includes a brief introduction to the topic with multiple case vignettes, high-quality images, and tables to enhance learning. The authors discuss the emerging role of PET/CT in the evaluation of aortic stenosis, infective endocarditis, large vessel vasculitis, and peripheral vascular disease. The book also summarizes other cardiac imaging modalities available in addition to SPECT and PET, based on disease pathology. There are key points in the beginning and questions at the end of the chapters to reinforce understanding and facilitate review. The book outlines various clinical trials and gives future directions to researchers and clinicians to identify and treat diseases.
Assessment: This book is an excellent guide for training and practicing physicians dealing with nuclear cardiology.

Doody's Review Service