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ReviewJournal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology2013

The role of radionuclide imaging in heart failure.

Vinay Gulati, Gilbert Ching, Gary V Heller

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Review in Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed
0.5field-weighted citation impact, top 29% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
  2. Impact of medications on mIBG uptake, with specific attention to the heart: Comprehensive review of the literature.Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology · 2015
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  3. Current status of nuclear cardiology in Japan: Ongoing efforts to improve clinical standards and to establish evidence.Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology · 2015
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Vinay GulatiUniversity of Connecticut Health Center, 263 Farmington Avenue, Farmington, CT, 06030, USA, drvinaygulati@gmail.com.
Gilbert Ching
Gary V Heller
Hartford Financial Services (United States)UConn Health · USUniversity of Connecticut · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The incidence of heart failure (HF) is increasing and it remains the only area in cardiovascular disease wherein hospitalization rates and mortalities have worsened in the past 25 years. This review is provided to assess the role of radionuclide imaging in HF. The focus is on three aspects: the value of nuclear imaging to distinguish ischemic from non-ischemic etiologies; risk stratification of patients with HF with evaluation of candidates for specific treatment strategies; and the role of cardiac neuronal imaging in patients with HF. Distinguishing ischemic from non-ischemic cardiomyopathy is important because patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy can potentially have dramatic improvement with revascularization. Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) has excellent reported sensitivity and negative predictive value in the detection of coronary artery disease in HF patients. SPECT imaging is also useful in establishing treatment strategies in patients with HF, including those with new onset CHF. Cardiac neuronal imaging of mIBG is particularly helpful in risk stratification of patients with HF. The modality can be used to monitor the response to therapy as dysfunctional mIBG uptake may show improvement with pharmacological treatment.

Indexed as

Heart FailureHumansMyocardial IschemiaMyocardial Perfusion ImagingPositron-Emission TomographyTomography, Emission-Computed, Single-PhotonVentricular Function, Left

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PMID23990345
OpenAlexW2060719990

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