Nuclear Cardiology: Principles and Methods

ISBN-13: 9781468422764 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 249 str.

Aldo Serafini

Opis

Nuclear medicine is undergoing major orientation both praetieally and eoneeptu- ally. To this point nuclear medieine has direeted the major portion of its effort to visualization of statie organ systems. The true value of this teehnique lies not in its ability to graphieally display organ systems, but rather its ability to measure organ funetion in a noninvasive manner. Dr. Serafini and his eolleagues have, in this book, brought together the experts of the different phases of cardiodynamies. The eontents lead one to believe that there are relatively simple innoeuous tests that ean supply large amounts of extremely important physiologie data without the neeessity for open invasion of the heart. Perhaps the most exciting part of the studies is the glimpse into the future they provide. The depth and versatility of these teehniques is displayed by the surprising variety of problems amenable to nuclear medieine examination. Perhaps the one point that is ever present in all these teehniques is the ability to perform the tests sequentially in different time frames as the patient's eondi- tion ehanges or a major event is taking plaee, sueh as surgery. The work presented in this volume must be eonsidered the genesis of the new nuc1ear medieine and I, for one, look forward with great anticipation to what will follow.

Spis treści

I Fundamentals.- Basic Anatomy of the Normal and Diseased Heart.- Assessment of Left Ventricular Function: Current Methods and Clinical Significance.- Radiopharmaceuticals for Cardiovascular Investigations.- II Shunt Detection in Congenital Heart Disease.- Scintiangiographic and Probe Systems in the Detection of Cardiac Shunts.- Detection of Left-to-Right Shunts by Inhalation of Oxygen-15-Labeled Carbon Dioxide.- III Evaluation of Myocardial Blood Flow and Disease.- Myocardial Energetics.- Potassium-43 and Rubidium-81 Myocardial Imaging at Rest, at Exercise, and During Angina Pectoris.- Myocardial Imaging at Rest and During Stress with MAA or Microspheres.- Measurement of Myocardial Blood Flow Using 133Xe.- Myocardial Perfusion Imaging with MAA Following Coronary Artery Surgery.- Rest and Exercise Myocardial Imaging in the Assessment of the Postoperative Cardiac Patient.- Acute Myocardial Infarct Imaging with 99mTc Stannous Pyrophosphate.- Myocardial Imaging with Thallium-201.- IV Evaluation of Ventricular Function.- Functional Aspects of Myocardial and Valvular Disease: Clinical Correlations.- Techniques for Heart-Lung Imaging.- Noninvasive Measurement of Left-Ventricular Performance Utilizing an Anger Camera—Left-Ventricular Ejection Fraction.- Simplified Techniques for Radioangiographic Analysis.- Value of Combined Hemodynamic and Radiocardiographic Studies in Acute Respiratory Failure.- The Use of C15O2 in the Evaluation of Cardiac Abnormalities.- Radioactive Gases in the Evaluation of Left Ventricular Function.- Early Effect of Cardiac Surgery on Left-Ventricular Ejection Fraction.- V Radioimmunoassay.- Role of Radioimmunoassay in the Cardiac Patient—Principles and Applications.