scholarly journals Nuclear Cardiology — In the Era of the Interventional Cardiology

10.5772/55484 ◽  
2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Branislav Baskot ◽  
Igor Ivanov ◽  
Dragan Kovacevic ◽  
Slobodan Obradovic ◽  
Nenad Ratkovic ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Cardiology ◽  
Interventional Cardiology

Methods and clinical applications in nuclear cardiology: a position statement

2002 ◽  
Vol 41 (01) ◽  
pp. 3-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Schäfers
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Cardiology ◽  
Clinical Medicine ◽  
Imaging Techniques ◽  
Cost Savings ◽  
Cost Benefit ◽  
Position Statement ◽  
Electron Beam Tomography ◽  
Partial Functions ◽  
Cost Benefit Ratio ◽  
Medicine Today

SummaryNuclear cardiological procedures have paved the way for non-invasive diagnostics of various partial functions of the heart. Many of these functions cannot be visualised for diagnosis by any other method (e. g. innervation). These techniques supplement morphological diagnosis with regard to treatment planning and monitoring. Furthermore, they possess considerable prognostic relevance, an increasingly important issue in clinical medicine today, not least in view of the cost-benefit ratio.Our current understanding shows that effective, targeted nuclear cardiology diagnosis – in particular for high-risk patients – can contribute toward cost savings while improving the quality of diagnostic and therapeutic measures.In the future, nuclear cardiology will have to withstand mounting competition from other imaging techniques (magnetic resonance imaging, electron beam tomography, multislice computed tomography). The continuing development of these methods increasingly enables measurement of functional aspects of the heart. Nuclear radiology methods will probably develop in the direction of molecular imaging.

The Expanding Role of Echocardiography in Interventional Cardiology

2010 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lindsay A Smith ◽  
Amit Bhan ◽  
Mark J Monaghan ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Interventional Procedures ◽  
Imaging Modality ◽  
Interventional Cardiology ◽  
Design And Technology ◽  
Team Approach ◽  
Medical Problems ◽  
Multidisciplinary Team Approach ◽  
Case Selection ◽  
Optimal Imaging

Echocardiography provides excellent realtime imaging of the heart, making it the imaging modality of choice immediately before, during and after cardiac interventional procedures. It helps to guide case selection and execution of the intervention, evaluates the effects of the intervention and enables early detection of complications. Advances in the design and technology of medical devices and delivery systems, coupled with demand for alternative non-surgical therapies for common medical problems, have led to an increase in the volume, variety and complexity of non-coronary cardiac interventional procedures performed. Many of these procedures require a multidisciplinary team approach and demand optimal imaging to ensure successful outcomes. The aim of this article is to review the expanding role of echocardiography in non-coronary interventional cardiology in adults.

Dedicated Bifurcation Stents Strategy

2009 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 70
Author(s):  
Chen Shao-Liang ◽  
Imad Sheiban ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Interventional Cardiology ◽  
Daily Practice ◽  
Side Branch ◽  
Control Groups ◽  
Coronary Bifurcation ◽  
Percutaneous Approach ◽  
Coronary Bifurcation Lesions ◽  
Drug Eluting ◽  
Bifurcation Lesions ◽  
Provisional Stenting

Coronary bifurcation lesions represent an area of ongoing challenges in interventional cardiology, mainly due to the higher rate of residual stenosis and restenosis at the side branch ostium. Multiple two-stent bifurcation strategies, including T-stenting, V-stenting, simultaneuos kissing stenting, culotte stenting and classic crush techniques, have no advantages over one-stent techniques. This led to provisional stenting being considered as a mainstream approach, based on the results of numerous randomised trials. Dedicated bifurcation stents have been designed specifically to treat coronary bifurcations with the aim of addressing some of the shortcomings of the conventional percutaneous approach and facilitating the provisional approach. The development of more drug-eluting platforms and larger studies with control groups demonstrating their clinical applicability, efficacy and safety are required before these stents are widely incorporated into daily practice.

Downsizing – the Future of Interventional Cardiology

2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 28
Author(s):  
Giovanni Amoroso ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Contrast Agent ◽  
Vascular Complications ◽  
Cost Savings ◽  
Length Of Hospital Stay ◽  
Interventional Cardiology ◽  
Coronary Intervention ◽  
Transradial Approach ◽  
Technical Developments ◽  
Coronary Procedures ◽  
Angiographic Image

The concept of downsized catheters (i.e., using catheters smaller than 6 French) for invasive coronary procedures, such as diagnostic cardiac catheterisation and percutaneous coronary intervention, has been developing over the years, particularly as a result of the rise of the transradial approach. Recent advances have allowed the use of smaller and sheathless catheters, which confer a number of advantages – such as fewer vascular complications, reduced use of contrast agent and reduced haemostasis – thus increasing patient safety and comfort and allowing more rapid patient mobilisation. Reductions in patient complications, number and length of hospital stay, and amount of contrast agent used can also lead to cost savings. While the use of smaller catheters has been hindered in the past because of poor angiographic image quality, new automated contrast injectors have helped overcome this limitation. There is a need to make interventional cardiologists worldwide more aware of the benefits of downsizing, in the light of the latest technical developments and the increased use of transradial approach.

REC: Interventional Cardiology: A new journal, but not just one more journal

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
José M. de la Torre-Hernández ◽  
Fernando Alfonso ◽  
Juan Sanchis ◽  
Raúl Moreno
Keyword(s):  
Interventional Cardiology

Position paper nuclear cardiology: Update 2008

2009 ◽  
Vol 48 (02) ◽  
pp. 71-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Bengel ◽  
U. Büll ◽  
W. Burchert ◽  
P. Kies ◽  
R. Kluge ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Medicine ◽  
Nuclear Cardiology ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Position Paper ◽  
Circulation Research ◽  
Diagnostic Algorithms ◽  
Clinical Diagnostic ◽  
Common Position ◽  
German Association

SummaryNuclear cardiology is well established in clinical diagnostic algorithms for many years. This is an update 2008 of the first common position paper of the German Association of Nuclear Medicine and the German Association of Cardiology, Heart and Circulation Research published in 2001 aiming at an overview of state-of-the-art scintigraphic methods.

Sirolimus Eluting Stent: A New Era in Interventional Cardiology?

2003 ◽  
Vol 9 (13) ◽  
pp. 1077-1094 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephan Windecker ◽  
Marco Roffi ◽  
Bernhard Meier
Keyword(s):  
Interventional Cardiology ◽  
New Era ◽  
Sirolimus Eluting Stent
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