Prosthetic heart valve (PHV) dysfunction is rare but potentially life-threatening. Although
often challenging, establishing the exact cause of PHV dysfunction is essential to determine …

Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) remain the leading cause of mortality worldwide. Although
major diagnostic and therapeutic advances have significantly improved the prognosis of …

LEHR Low energy high resolution LVEF Left ventricular ejection fraction MBq
Megabecquerels mCi Millicuries MPI Myocardial perfusion imaging MRI Magnetic …

Aims Advances of cardiac computed tomography angiography (CTA) have been developed
for dose reduction, but their efficacy in clinical practice is largely unknown. This study was …

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

Background The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has adversely affected
diagnosis and treatment of noncommunicable diseases. Its effects on delivery of diagnostic …

Objectives”, explains how to select and use various test methods for evaluating disease
states, the prognosis, and the effects of treatment. References to the literature published …

Lowering the administered dose in SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) has become
an important clinical problem. In this study we investigate the potential benefit of applying a …

Objectives This study compared the ability of automated myocardial perfusion imaging
analysis to predict major adverse cardiac events (MACE) to that of visual analysis …

Background Low-dose (LD) myocardial perfusion (MP) SPECT suffers from high noise level,
leading to compromised diagnostic accuracy. Here we investigated the denoising …