Aim This clinical practice guideline for the evaluation and diagnosis of chest pain provides
recommendations and algorithms for clinicians to assess and diagnose chest pain in adult …

Chest pain in patients without obstructive coronary artery disease has been realized as a
frequent problem encountered in clinical practice. Invasive flow investigations have …

Therapeutic angiogenesis may improve outcomes in patients with coronary artery disease
undergoing surgical revascularization. Angiogenic factors may promote blood vessel growth …

The use of cardiac PET, and in particular of quantitative myocardial perfusion PET, has been
growing during the last years, because scanners are becoming widely available and …

Positron emission tomography (PET) is actively used in a diverse range of applications in
oncology, cardiology, and neurology. The use of PET in the clinical setting focuses on static …

Coronary artery disease (CAD) remains the leading cause of mortality and morbidity in
developed countries. In patients presenting with acute coronary syndromes (ACS), timely …

Purpose To define the diagnostic power of absolute myocardial blood flow (MBF) evaluation
on dynamic CZT imaging in intermediate risk patients in comparison with invasive coronary …

In clinical decision making, myocardial viability is defined as myocardium in acute or chronic
coronary artery disease and other conditions with contractile dysfunction but maintained …

Background PET/CT is the standard for quantitative assessments of myocardial blood flow
(MBF), but it requires short-lived-tracers, costly, and not widely available. SPECT with …

Objectives: The aim of this study was to evaluate the incremental prognostic value of global
coronary flow reserve (CFR) in patients with known or suspected coronary artery disease …