Ischemic heart disease is the leading cause of mortality worldwide. In this context,
myocardial viability is defined as the amount of myocardium that, despite contractile …

The assessment of whether dysfunctional myocardial tissue or regions contain
predominantly viable myocytes has become an important research and clinical issue for …

A substantial proportion of patients with acute myocardial infarction develop clinical heart
failure, which remains a common and major healthcare burden. It has been shown that in …

Identification of myocardium likely to benefit from pharmacologic, mechanical, or surgical
therapies is critical in the care of patients with coronary artery disease. Because more …

Radionuclide imaging approaches have proved useful for the noninvasive identification of a
potentially reversible impairment of contractile function in human myocardium. Foremost …

Over three decades ago, the concept of myocardial hibernation arose from the observation
that chronically dysfunctional myocardium could recover function with re-vascularization [1] …

AMI E. ISKANDRIAN & ERNST E. VAN DER WALL The first edition of this book was
published in 1994. Since then important advances have occurred in the field of myocardial …

“The hibernating myocardium refers to resting LV dysfunction due to reduced coronary blood
flow that can be partially or completely reversed by myocardial revascularization and/or by …

Detection of viable myocardium in patients with left ventricular dysfunction has become an
increasingly important guide to prognosis and treatment. This article reviews the current …

Currently, nuclear cardiology techniques can not only be employed for detecting, localizing
and sizing the extent of myocardial damage, but can also be used in combination with …