SynthesisEuropean journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging2020
Molecular imaging of carotid artery atherosclerosis with PET: a systematic review.
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- Molecular imaging research in atherosclerosis: A 23-year scientometric and visual analysis.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2023Pooled it
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- Emerging nanoprobes for the features visualization of vulnerable atherosclerotic plaques.Smart medicine · 2024Review
- In Vivo Classification and Characterization of Carotid Atherosclerotic Lesions with IntegratedDiagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Current status and perspectives of nuclear cardiology.Annals of nuclear medicine · 2024Review
- Utility of multimodal molecular imaging in the diagnosis and decision-making in arterial diseases.Polish journal of radiology · 2024Review
- Effective suppression of myocardial glucose uptake using predesigned low-carbohydrate boxed meals.Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology · 2023Article
- Stroke and molecular imaging: a focus on FDG-PET.American journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging · 2023Review
- Role of plaque imaging for identification of vulnerable patients beyond the stage of myocardial ischemia.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2023Review
- Advances in Noninvasive Carotid Wall Imaging with Ultrasound: A Narrative Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Review
- Longitudinal analysis of atherosclerotic plaques evolution: anJournal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology · 2022Article
- Relationship between Serum FGF21 and vWF Expression and Carotid Atherosclerosis in Elderly Patients with Hypertension.Journal of healthcare engineering · 2022Article
- Association between serum uric acid and carotid atherosclerosis in elderly postmenopausal women: A hospital-based study.Journal of clinical laboratory analysis · 2022Article
- Two-year change in 18F-sodium fluoride uptake in major arteries of healthy subjects and angina pectoris patients.The international journal of cardiovascular imaging · 2021Article
- Multispectral optoacoustic tomography of lipid and hemoglobin contrast in human carotid atherosclerosis.Photoacoustics · 2021Article
- CC Chemokine Receptor 5 Targeted Nanoparticles Imaging the Progression and Regression of Atherosclerosis Using Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography.Molecular pharmaceutics · 2021Article
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Abstract
purposeTo conduct a systematic review of articles on PET imaging of carotid atherosclerosis with emphasis on clinical usefulness and comparison with other imaging modalities.
methodsResearch articles reporting carotid artery PET imaging with different radiotracers until 30 November 2018 were systematically searched for in Medline/PubMed, Scopus, Embase, Google Scholar, and Cochrane Library. Duplicates were removed, and editorials, case studies, and investigations on feasibility or reproducibility of PET imaging and of patients with end-stage diseases or immunosuppressive medications were omitted. After quality assessment of included articles using Joanna Briggs Institute checklists, all eligible articles were reviewed.
resultsOf 1718 primary hits, 53 studies comprising 4472 patients, aged 47-91 years (78.8% males), were included and grouped under the following headlines: diagnostic performance, risk factors, laboratory findings, imaging modalities, and treatment.
conclusionFDG-PET visualizes the inflammatory part of carotid atherosclerosis enabling risk stratification to a certain degree, whereas NaF-PET seems to indicate long-term consequences of ongoing inflammation by demonstrating microcalcification allowing discrimination of atherosclerotic from normal arteries and suggesting clinically significant carotid atherosclerosis.
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