Background: Therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) involves the measurement of serum concentrations to optimize pharmacotherapy. Traditionally, blood pressure measurements alone, and not TDM, have been used evaluate antihypertensive response. However, approximately 50% hypertensive patients treated with lifestyle changes drugs fail achieve control. Serum concentration could be useful select optimal ...

Electrocardiographic gating is increasingly used for 82Rb cardiac PET/CT, but reference ranges for global functional parameters are not well defined. We sought to establish reference values for left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF), end systolic volume (ESV), and end diastolic volume (EDV) using 4 different commercial software packages. Additionally, we compared 2 different approaches for t...

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