Newer applications of nuclear cardiology in systolic heart failure: detecting coronary artery disease and guiding device therapy

Mati Friehling; Prem Soman

doi:10.1007/s11897-011-0057-5

Newer applications of nuclear cardiology in systolic heart failure: detecting coronary artery disease and guiding device therapy

Curr Heart Fail Rep. 2011 Jun;8(2):106-12. doi: 10.1007/s11897-011-0057-5.

Authors

Mati Friehling¹, Prem Soman

Affiliation

¹ University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Cardiovascular Institute, Presbyterian University Hospital, A-429 Scaife Hall, 200 Lothrop Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA.

PMID: 21465127
DOI: 10.1007/s11897-011-0057-5

Abstract

Radionuclide-based imaging techniques can be applied to the heart failure population to derive clinically useful information. This review discusses the specific role of myocardial perfusion imaging for determining heart failure etiology, and the potential application of radionuclide-based imaging techniques for the optimal selection of patients with heart failure for device therapy.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy
Cardiac-Gated Single-Photon Emission Computer-Assisted Tomography
Defibrillators, Implantable
Heart Failure, Systolic / diagnostic imaging*
Humans
Myocardial Perfusion Imaging / methods*