Archived Podcasts
In this podcast episode, Dr. Kenneth Brown of the University of Vermont College of Medicine discusses a new study that explores outcomes in patients with abnormal stress myocardial perfusion imaging suggestive of ischemia but angiographically insignificant coronary artery disease. Often labeled as "false positives", these patients are still at risk for major cardiac events according to the study's authors.
Dr. Aiden Abidov of William Beaumont Hospital and Cedars-Sinai Medical
Center discusses the merits of this study and the controversy of TID
ratio thresholds given the absence of literature on thresholds for single-day adenosine
Tc-99m sestamibi protocols.
Dr. Todd Miller of the Mayo Clinic discusses the potential of three imaging modalities in detecting coronary
artery disease in asymptomatic patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus.
Listen to Dr. Miller's review of this important study published in the July/August 2008 issue of the JNC.
Disclosure: Dr. Miller receives research funding from Lantheus
Medical Imaging and Molecular Insight Pharmaceuticals and has consulting arrangements with TherOx, Inc.
and The Medicines Company.
In this bonus podcast episode, Dr. Gordon DePuey provides an articulate analysis of the evolution of rapid SPECT imaging. Hear his description of the challenges and breakthroughs in imaging equipment and software.
Listen in as Dr. Gordon DePuey of St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital explains the latest research supporting the use of half-time acquisition protocols for SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging.
In this podcast episode, Dr. Philipp Kauffman of University Hospital Zurich reviews new research on the clinical value of fusion imaging versus side-by-side analysis or stand-alone MPI for detecting coronary artery disease.
In this podcast episode, Dr. Aiden Abidov of William Beaumont Hospital and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center discusses whether perfusion and functional parameters derived from quantitative technetium-99m tetrofosmin SPECT can adequately be used for cardiac risk assessment in women.