Myocardial viability

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-x

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2. Introduction

   • Abdulmassih S. Iskandrian, Ernst E. van der Wall

   Pages 1-4

3. Myocardial ischemia, stunning and hibernation: blood blow, metabolism and pathophysiology mechanism

   • Mitchell S. Finkel, Carmine V. Oddis, Brack G. Hattler, Richard L. Simmons

   Pages 5-18

4. Thallium-201 to assess myocardial viability

   • Lynne L. Johnson

   Pages 19-37

5. The role of technetium-99m Sestamibi in the evaluation of myocardial viability

   • Pierre Rigo, Therèse Benoit, Simon Braat

   Pages 39-52

6. Delineation of viable myocardium with metabolic imaging

   • Steven R. Bergmann

   Pages 53-70

7. Echocardiographic assessment of myocardial viability

   • Sanjiv Kaul

   Pages 71-102

8. Magnetic resonance techniques for the assessment of myocardial viability

   • Ernst E. Van Der Wall, Hubert W. Vliegen

   Pages 103-140

9. Approach to the assessment of myocardial viability in the cardiac catheterization laboratory

   • Morton J. Kern, Michael S. Flynn

   Pages 141-161

10. The cardiac surgeon’s viewpoint of myocardial viability

    • Edna H. G. Venneker, Berthe L. F. Van Eck-Smit, Gerda L. Van Rijk-Zwikker

    Pages 163-178

11. When is myocardial viability a clinically relevant issue?

    • Abdulmassih S. Iskandrian, Ernst E. Van Der Wall

    Pages 179-192

12. Back Matter

    Pages 193-203

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In the past few years it has become clear that left ventricular dysfunction, even of severe degree, may be reversible after coronary revascularization in some patients. As a result, myocardial viability has captured the imagination of researchers and clinicians seeking to unravel the cellular and subcellular mechanisms and define appropriate diagnostic modalities. These diagnostic modalities include: cardiac catheterization, positron-emission tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, two-dimensional echocardiography and single-photon imaging. This book, for the first time, brings together a diverse array of information in a comprehensive and concise fashion using a template of ten chapters written by experts in the field. It will be required reading for cardiologists, radiologists, nuclear medicine specialists, cardiac surgeons, anesthesiologists, internists and basic researchers and their trainees who are involved in the management of patients with coronary artery disease in whom myocardial viability is a clinically relevant issue.

• coronary artery disease
• echocardiography
• magnetic resonance
• magnetic resonance imaging
• magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
• tomography

• Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, USA

  Abdulmassih S. Iskandrian

• Noninvasive Cardiac Imaging, Philadelphia Heart Institute, Presbyterian Medical Center, Philadelphia, USA

  Abdulmassih S. Iskandrian

• Department of Cardiology, Cardiovascular Imaging Laboratory, University Hospital Leiden, Leiden, The Netherlands

  Ernst E. Wall

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