Journal of Nuclear Cardiology 2016

Joint Position Paper of the SNMMI Cardiovascular Council and the ASNC. Journal of Nuclear Cardiology 2017.

A JACC State-of-the-Art Review

Myocardial blood flow reserve on PET MPI is associated with all-cause mortality and can identify patients who re- ceive a survival benefit with early revascularization compared to medical therapy.

an excellent review of the technical, diagnostic and prognostic performance of PET myocardial perfusion imaging.

Appropriate use guidelines document classifying indications for cardiac PET.

Clinical scenarios and indications for nuclear stress testing techniques.

In this paper, the authors describe a more contemporary application of viability testing that is founded on the alternative concept that the main goal of surgical revascularization is to prevent further damage by protecting the residual viable myocardium from subsequent acute coronary events.

A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association.

The presence of focal perfusion defects and FDG uptake on cardiac PET identifies patients at higher risk of death or VT.

Pre-treatment 18-FDG myocardial uptake was a predictor of clinical response and echocardiographic response response to immunosuppression in patients with cardiac sarcoid.

In a large population of matched pharmacologic stress patients, myocardial perfusion PET was superior to SPECT in image quality, interpretive certainty, and diagnostic accuracy.