In the past decade, significant advances have been made in the ability to image the heart with radionuclide tracers under stress and resting conditions in patients with suspected or known coronary artery disease (CAD) for the detection of ischemia, determination of prognosis, assessment of myocardial viability, preoperative risk assessment for patients undergoing noncardiac surgery, and evaluat...

Scintimammography is the functional imaging study of the breast with singlephoton radiopharmaceuticals, such as 99mTc-sestamibi or 99mTc-tetrofosmin. In 1994, Khalkhali et al. (1) reported the first series with a relatively large number of patients on the clinical application of scintimammography. In their group of 59 patients, in whom an abnormal mammogram and physical examination warranted bi...

Technetium-99m-tetrofosmin ((99m)Tc-TF) myocardial perfusion studies have incidentally detected various extracardiac abnormalities. The interpretation of these findings may be essential for early diagnosis and treatment of important diseases. We present a rare case of a mediastinal thymoma incidently detected during myocardial perfusion imaging. A 60 year-old woman, with precardiac symptoms of ...

INTRODUCTION Delayed-enhancement magnetic resonance imaging (DE-MRI) has been recently proposed as an alternative tool in identifying myocardial viability and transmural distribution of necrosis in the myocardium. CASE PRESENTATION We describe a case of a 71-year-old man admitted for ischemic-like chest pain in which DE-MRI and post-nitrate 99mTc-tetrofosmin myocardial scintigraphy equally co...

Methods CE-MARC was a prospective study of 752 patients with suspected angina. All patients were scheduled for CMR, SPECT and X-ray coronary angiography. Multi-parametric CMR comprised adenosine stress/rest perfusion, cine imaging, late gadolinium enhancement and MR coronary angiography. Gated adenosine stress/rest SPECT was performed using 99mTc-tetrofosmin. The primary outcome was the diagnos...