2024
Association between 82Rb positron emission tomography-derived regional myocardial blood flow, severity of angiographic coronary artery stenosis, and mortality in patients with chest pain
Gallegos C, Paredes C, Hu J, Posada E, Saito Y, Lansky A, Shah S, Liu Y, Smolderen K, Mena-Hurtado C, Sinusas A, Miller E. Association between 82Rb positron emission tomography-derived regional myocardial blood flow, severity of angiographic coronary artery stenosis, and mortality in patients with chest pain. Advances In Radiotherapy & Nuclear Medicine 2024, 2: 3786. DOI: 10.36922/arnm.3786.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMyocardial flow reserveGlobal myocardial flow reserveQuantitative coronary angiographyAssociated with increased all-cause mortalityPositron emission tomographyCoronary artery stenosis severityMyocardial blood flowAll-cause mortalityCoronary angiographyChest painStenosis severityAngiographic coronary artery stenosisResting myocardial blood flowAcute chest painBlood flowInvasive coronary angiographyLeft circumflex arteryLeft descending arteryRight coronary arteryCoronary artery stenosisStress testCoronary stenosis severityCardiovascular eventsDescending arteryWeak correlation
2019
Machine learning predicts per-vessel early coronary revascularization after fast myocardial perfusion SPECT: results from multicentre REFINE SPECT registry.
Hu LH, Betancur J, Sharir T, Einstein AJ, Bokhari S, Fish MB, Ruddy TD, Kaufmann PA, Sinusas AJ, Miller EJ, Bateman TM, Dorbala S, Di Carli M, Germano G, Commandeur F, Liang JX, Otaki Y, Tamarappoo BK, Dey D, Berman DS, Slomka PJ. Machine learning predicts per-vessel early coronary revascularization after fast myocardial perfusion SPECT: results from multicentre REFINE SPECT registry. European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Imaging 2019, 21: 549-559. PMID: 31317178, PMCID: PMC7167744, DOI: 10.1093/ehjci/jez177.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsEarly coronary revascularizationMyocardial perfusion imagingStress TPDCoronary revascularizationTomography myocardial perfusion imagingTetrofosmin myocardial perfusion imagingSPECT myocardial perfusion imagingInvasive coronary angiographyReceiver operator characteristic curveREFINE SPECT registryPatient-specific explanationsOperator characteristic curveSingle photon emissionMyocardial perfusion SPECTCoronary angiographyIndividual patientsImaging variablesPatientsPerfusion SPECTPerfusion imagingClinical settingCharacteristic curveRevascularizationExpert interpretationStress test