Assessment of Myocardial Viability With 99mTc Sestamibi in Patients Undergoing Cardiac Transplantation: A Scintigraphic/Pathological Study

R Medrano, RW Lowry, JB Young, DG Weilbaecher… - Circulation, 1996 - Am Heart Assoc
… use of sestamibi tomography imaging in humans with pathological infarct size as a reference
standard. On the basis of our results, we can state that 99m Tc sestamibi tomography is an …

… technetium-99m sestamibi tomography in the identification of cardiac allograft vasculopathy and the prediction of long-term prognosis after heart transplantation

GR Ciliberto, L Ruffini, M Mangiavacchi… - European heart …, 2001 - academic.oup.com
sestamibi SPECT in a large population of heart transplant recipients. Our findings indicate
that quantitative technetium-99m sestamibi … imaging approach in heart transplant recipients. …

… Viability With 99mTc-Sestamibi Tomography Before Coronary Bypass Graft Surgery: Correlation With Histopathology and Postoperative Improvement in Cardiac …

HA Dakik, JF Howell, GM Lawrie, R Espada… - Circulation, 1997 - Am Heart Assoc
… -sestamibi as a viability marker. In a recently reported study 19 using explanted hearts from
transplant … scar quantified by 99m Tc-sestamibi SPECT and the actual pathological scar size. …

The role of multimodality cardiac imaging in the transplanted heart

JD Estep, DJ Shah, SF Nagueh, JJ Mahmarian… - JACC: Cardiovascular …, 2009 - jacc.org
… ACR and CAV remains a priority objective for heart transplant professionals. In this review we
will… (echocardiography, cardiac computed tomography, myocardial perfusion imaging, and …

Long-term results of intracoronary bone marrow cell transplantation: the potential of gated sestamibi SPECT/FDG PET imaging to select patients with maximum benefit …

M Kaminek, J Meluzin, R Panovský… - Clinical Nuclear …, 2010 - journals.lww.com
… by dobutamine echocardiography and sestamibi single-photon emission computed
tomography/fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography underwent BMC transplantation (1 × …

Myocardial Flow Assessment After Heart Transplantation Using Dynamic Cadmium-Zinc-Telluride Single-Photon Emission Computed Tomography With 201Tl and 99mTc Tracers and …

KY Ko, CL Ko, CM Lee, JS Cheng, YW Wu… - Circulation …, 2023 - Am Heart Assoc
… Thirty-eight patients with prior heart transplantation who underwent CZT SPECT and 13 N-NH
3 PET dynamic scans were included in this study. CZT SPECT with 99m Tc-sestamibi was …

Heart transplant patient outcomes: 5-year mean follow-up by coronary computed tomography angiography

A Rohnean, L Houyel, A Sigal-Cinqualbre, NT To… - …, 2011 - journals.lww.com
… We evaluate the feasibility and safety of coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA)
as the first-line investigation in heart transplant patients and the rate of coronary allograft …

Sestamibi single photon emission computed tomography immediately after primary percutaneous coronary intervention identifies patients at risk for large infarcts

A Kaltoft, M Bøttcher, NP Sand, M Rehling… - American Heart …, 2006 - Elsevier
… as technetium Tc 99m sestamibi single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT),
is … Sestamibi distributes in the myocardium in proportion to flow, 16 and cardiac uptake is …

Coronary stenosis detection by 16-slice computed tomography in heart transplant patients: comparison with conventional angiography and impact on clinical …

G Romeo, L Houyel, CY Angel, P Brenot… - Journal of the American …, 2005 - jacc.org
… Between April 2003 and July 2004, 53 consecutive heart transplant patients underwent
16-slice CT within the 24 h before or after their annual routine CCA. Exclusion criteria were …

Selecting patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy for medical treatment, revascularization, or heart transplantation

GA Belier - Journal of Nuclear Cardiology, 1997 - Elsevier
sestamibi is sequestered largely within viable mitochondria by the large negative transmembrane
potential.lx Nonviable myocytes do not sequester 99mT~labeled sestamibitomography