Cardiac Imaging Update 2017

This book is a comprehensive guide providing cardiologists with the latest information and developments in the field of diagnostic and prognostic cardiac imaging.

Divided into two sections, the first part of the book examines cardiac imaging, and is further divided into non-invasive and invasive techniques.

The second section discusses clinical cardiology and is further divided into emerging therapies and the diagnosis and management of coronary artery disease.

The book is enhanced by nearly 150 clinical photographs, diagrams and tables to assist learning.

Key points

• Comprehensive guide to latest developments in diagnostic and prognostic cardiac imaging
• Section one covers non-invasive and invasive imaging techniques
• Section two discusses emerging therapies in clinical cardiology and management of coronary artery disease
• Highly illustrated with nearly 150 images, diagrams and tables

SECTION 1: Cardiac Imaging

• Noninvasive
• Echocardiographic Evaluation of Infective Endocarditis: The Current Status
• The Intricacies in Echocardiographic Evaluation of Aortic Stenosis
• Echocardiography of Heart Failure: How to Use It in Routine Clinical Practice?
• Speckle Tracking Echocardiography: Basics and Clinical Applications
• A Gold Standard for Evaluation of Cardiomyopathies
• Real World Indications for Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging: When is It Invaluable in Clinical Practice?
• Cardiac MRI and Cardiac CT: Indispensable Tools for the Diagnosis of Coronary Artery Disease
• Cardiac Imaging: Current Scenario and Future Directions
• Clinical Decision-making with Myocardial Perfusion Imaging in Patients with Known or Suspected Coronary Artery Disease
• Current Status of Rubidium-82 PET-CT Myocardial Perfusion Imaging
• Innovation of New Tracers in the Era of Multimodality Cardiac Imaging
• Myocardial Imaging Products’ Evolution: Change for the Better
• Efficacy of Combining FDG-PET Metabolic and Tc-99m–MIBI Myocardial Perfusion Study in Assessment of Myocardial Viability
• Myocardial Viability Assessment: Is it Alive?
• Hybrid Myocardial Imaging Techniques: Role in Functionally Relevant Coronary Disease
• Role of Coronary Flow Reserve in Coronary Artery Disease
• Nuclear Medicine in Assessment of Cardiac Dyssynchrony
• Invasive
• Is Optical Coherence Tomography Ready to Replace Intravascular Ultrasound in Percutaneous Coronary Intervention?
• Association of Coronary Stenosis and Plaque Morphology with Fractional Flow Reserve and Outcomes

SECTION 2: Clinical Cardiology

• Emerging Therapies
• PCSK9 Inhibitors: Will they be the Next Wonder Drug after Statins?
• Fighting the Devil of Stroke in Atrial Fibrillation: The New Weapons in the Armory

• Coronary Artery Disease

• Management of Prehospital Phase of Acute Myocardial Infarction
• STEMI Care in India and the Real World: Pharmacoinvasive Approach
• Bioresorbable Vascular Scaffold
• Statin Intolerance
• Sudden Cardiac Death: How to Predict and Prevent it?
• New Gadgets Knocking at the Door: Leadless Pacemakers, Subcutaneous Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators, Wearable Defibrillators
• Echocardiographic Evaluation of Left Atrial Clot and Its Utility in Clinical Practice
• Clinical Applications of Nuclear Cardiology Procedures and Its Future Directions
• Cardiac Positron Emission Tomography Perfusion Tracers: Current Status and Future Directions

Index

GN Mahapatra MD DSc
Department of Nuclear Medicine and PET, Seven Hills Hospital, Marol, Andheri East, Mumbai, Maharastra, India

PC Manoria
Director, Manoria Heart and Critical Care Hospital, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India

Diwakar Jain
Professor of Medicine, Director of Nuclear Cardiology, New York Medical College, Westchester Medical Centre, Valhalla, New York, USA