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Pelletier-Galarneau M, Juneau D. On the relationship between coronary microvascular disease and obesity. J Nucl Cardiol 2022; 29:2446-2447. [PMID: 34697786 DOI: 10.1007/s12350-021-02835-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2021] [Accepted: 10/04/2021] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Matthieu Pelletier-Galarneau
- Department of Medical Imaging, Institut de Cardiologie de Montréal, Montreal, QC, H1T 1C8, Canada.
- Gordon Center for Medical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
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- Department of Medical Imaging, Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada
- University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, Canada
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Assessment of late-term progression of cardiac allograft vasculopathy in patients with orthotopic heart transplantation using quantitative cardiac 82Rb PET. Int J Cardiovasc Imaging 2020; 37:1461-1472. [PMID: 33123937 DOI: 10.1007/s10554-020-02086-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2020] [Accepted: 10/23/2020] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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The risk stratification and long-term survival of patients with orthotopic heart transplantation (OHT) is impacted by the complication of cardiac allograft vasculopathy (CAV). This study evaluates changes in myocardial blood flow (MBF) and myocardial coronary flow reserve (CFR) in a group of long-term OHT patients using quantitative cardiac 82Rb-positron emission tomography (PET). Twenty patients (7 females and 13 males, mean age = 72.7 ± 12.2 years with CAV and 62.9 ± 7.2 years without CAV and post-OHT mean time = 13.9 years), were evaluated retrospectively using dynamic cardiac 82Rb-PET at rest and regadenoson-induced stress. The patients also underwent selective coronary angiography (SCA) for diagnosis and risk stratification. CAV was diagnosed based on SCA findings and maximal intimal thickness greater than 0.5 mm, as defined by International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT). Global and regional MBFs were estimated in three vascular territories using the standard 1-tissue compartment model for dynamic 82Rb-PET. The myocardial CFR was also calculated as the ratio of peak stress MBF to rest MBF. Among twenty patients, seven had CAV in, at least, one major coronary artery (ISHLT CAV grade 1 or higher) while 13 patients did not have CAV (NonCAV). Mean rate-pressure products (RPP) at rest were significantly elevated in CAV patients compared to those without CAV (P = 0.002) but it was insignificant at stress (P = NS). There was no significant difference in the stress MBFs between CAV and NonCAV patients (P = NS). However, the difference in RPP-normalized stress MBFs was significant (P = 0.045), while RPP-normalized MBFs at rest was not significant (P = NS). Both CFR and RPP-normalized CFR were significantly lower in CAV compared to NonCAV patients (P < 0.001). There were significant correlations between MBFs and RPPs at rest for both CAV (ρ = 0.764, P = 0.047) and NonCAV patients (ρ = 0.641, P = 0.017), while there were no correlations at stress for CAV (ρ = 0.232, P = NS) and NonCAV patients (ρ = 0.068, P = NS). This study indicates that the resting MBF is higher in late-term post-OHT patients. The high resting MBF and reduced CFR suggest an unprecedented demand of blood flow and blunted response to stress due to impaired vasodilatory capacity that is exacerbated by the presence of CAV.
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Burnstock G, Pelleg A. Cardiac purinergic signalling in health and disease. Purinergic Signal 2015; 11:1-46. [PMID: 25527177 PMCID: PMC4336308 DOI: 10.1007/s11302-014-9436-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 99] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2014] [Accepted: 11/25/2014] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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This review is a historical account about purinergic signalling in the heart, for readers to see how ideas and understanding have changed as new experimental results were published. Initially, the focus is on the nervous control of the heart by ATP as a cotransmitter in sympathetic, parasympathetic, and sensory nerves, as well as in intracardiac neurons. Control of the heart by centers in the brain and vagal cardiovascular reflexes involving purines are also discussed. The actions of adenine nucleotides and nucleosides on cardiomyocytes, atrioventricular and sinoatrial nodes, cardiac fibroblasts, and coronary blood vessels are described. Cardiac release and degradation of ATP are also described. Finally, the involvement of purinergic signalling and its therapeutic potential in cardiac pathophysiology is reviewed, including acute and chronic heart failure, ischemia, infarction, arrhythmias, cardiomyopathy, syncope, hypertrophy, coronary artery disease, angina, diabetic cardiomyopathy, as well as heart transplantation and coronary bypass grafts.
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- Geoffrey Burnstock
- Autonomic Neuroscience Centre, University College Medical School, Rowland Hill Street, London, NW3 2PF, UK,
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Ansari M, Javadi H, Pourbehi M, Mogharrabi M, Rayzan M, Semnani S, Jallalat S, Amini A, Abbaszadeh M, Barekat M, Nabipour I, Assadi M. The association of rate pressure product (RPP) and myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) findings: a preliminary study. Perfusion 2012; 27:207-13. [DOI: 10.1177/0267659112436631] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Introduction: The product of heart rate and systolic blood pressure, termed as rate-pressure product (RPP), is a very reliable indicator of myocardial oxygen demand and is widely used clinically. There have been previous attempts to describe the relationship between RPP and the onset of pain in angina pectoris. The current study aimed to evaluate the association between RPP results and scan findings. Materials and methods: In total, 497 patients with suspected coronary artery disease (CAD) underwent gated, single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) imaging with dipyridamole, exercise, or dobutamine stress, and were included in this study. Baseline and maximum heart rate (HR), systolic blood pressure (SBP), diastolic blood pressure (DBP), and electrocardiogram (ECG) results were recorded. The rate-pressure product (RPP) was calculated as the product of heart rate and systolic arterial pressure for both baseline and maximum measures. The difference between the RPP max and the basal RPP is known as the RPP reserve. Researchers also obtained semi-quantitative analyses of myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI), using gated software, demographic information, risk factors of CAD, and pretest likelihoods of CAD using nomograms. Result: Four hundred and ninety-seven cases, including 426 patients with dipyridamole stress, 59 with exercise stress, and 12 with dobutamine stress, underwent myocardial perfusion imaging. Scan results were positive in 194 (45.5%) and negative in 232 (54.5%) patients with dipyridamole stress. In patients with exercise stress, the scan was positive in 24 (40.7%) cases and negative in 35 (59.3%) cases. In dobutamine stressed patients, the scan was positive in 6 (50%) cases and negative in the 6 remaining cases. Dipyridamole stress resulted in a significant difference between HR at rest and at maximum (28.95 ± 24.53, p-value<0.0001), between systolic BP at rest and maximum (6.75 ± 12.50, p-value<0.0001) and between diastolic BP at rest and maximum (1.45 ± 5.80; p-value<0.0001). There was a significant correlation between sum stress scores (SSS) and reserved RPP (r= −0.12, p-value<0.001) which, in dipyridamole patients, was r=−0.18, p-value=0.0001). In addition, there was a significant association between reserved RPP and risk of CAD (p-value<0.001). In the patients with dipyridamole stress, the ejection fraction (EF) change (odds ratio =0.92; 95% CI: 0.86-0.98; p=0.01), reserve RPP (odds ratio =1.00; 95% CI: 1.00-1.00; p=0.04), risk of CAD (odds ratio =5.80; 95% CI: 3.21-10.50; p<0.0001) and age (odds ratio =0.94; 95% CI: 0.89-0.98; p=0.01) were associated significantly with MPI results, using multiple logistic regressions. Conclusion. The study demonstrated that RPP is associated with MPI findings using gated SPECT imaging with dipyridamole stress. However, to confirm this preliminary result, further studies are mandatory.
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- M Ansari
- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Imam Hossein Hospital, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Golestan Research Center of Gastroenterology and Hepatology (GRCGH), Golestan University of Medical Sciences, Gorgan, Iran
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- The Persian Gulf Nuclear Medicine Research Center, Bushehr University of Medical Sciences, Bushehr, Iran
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, 5th Azar Hospital, Golestan University of Medical Sciences, Gorgan, Iran
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- The Persian Gulf Nuclear Medicine Research Center, Bushehr University of Medical Sciences, Bushehr, Iran
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- Golestan Research Center of Gastroenterology and Hepatology (GRCGH), Golestan University of Medical Sciences, Gorgan, Iran
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- Golestan Research Center of Gastroenterology and Hepatology (GRCGH), Golestan University of Medical Sciences, Gorgan, Iran
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- The Persian Gulf Nuclear Medicine Research Center, Bushehr University of Medical Sciences, Bushehr, Iran
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- The Persian Gulf Nuclear Medicine Research Center, Bushehr University of Medical Sciences, Bushehr, Iran
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- The Persian Gulf Nuclear Medicine Research Center, Bushehr University of Medical Sciences, Bushehr, Iran
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- The Persian Gulf Marine Medicine Biotechnology Research Center, Bushehr University of Medical Sciences, Bushehr, Iran
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- The Persian Gulf Nuclear Medicine Research Center, Bushehr University of Medical Sciences, Bushehr, Iran
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Scholtens AM, Tio RA, Willemsen A, Dierckx RAJO, Boersma HH, Zeebregts CJ, Glaudemans AWJM, Slart RHJA. Myocardial perfusion reserve compared with peripheral perfusion reserve: a [13N]ammonia PET study. J Nucl Cardiol 2011; 18:238-46. [PMID: 21347555 PMCID: PMC3069313 DOI: 10.1007/s12350-011-9339-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2010] [Accepted: 01/16/2011] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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INTRODUCTION [13N]ammonia PET allows quantification of myocardial perfusion. The similarity between peripheral flow and myocardial perfusion is unclear. We compared perfusion flow in the myocardium with the upper limb during rest and adenosine stress [13N]ammonia PET to establish whether peripheral perfusion reserve (PPR) correlates with MPR. METHODS [13N]ammonia myocardial perfusion PET-scans of 58 patients were evaluated (27 men, 31 women, age 64 ± 13 years) and were divided in four subgroups: patients with coronary artery disease (CAD, n = 15), cardiac syndrome X (SX, n = 14), idiopathic dilating cardiomyopathy (DCM, n = 16), and normal controls (NC, n = 13). Peripheral limb perfusion was measured in the muscular tissue of the proximal upper limb and quantified through a 2-tissue-compartment model and the PPR was calculated (stress/rest ratio). MPR was also calculated by a 2-tissue-compartment model. The PPR results were compared with the MPR findings. RESULTS Mean myocardial perfusion increased significantly in all groups as evidenced by the MPR (CAD 1.99 ± 0.47; SX 1.39 ± 0.31; DCM 1.72 ± 0.69; NC 2.91 ± 0.78). Mean peripheral perfusion also increased but not significantly and accompanied with great variations within and between groups (mean PPR: CAD 1.30 ± 0.79; SX 1.36 ± 0.71; DCM 1.60 ± 1.22; NC 1.27 ± 0.63). The mean difference between PPR and MPR for all subpopulations varied widely. No significant correlations in flow reserve were found between peripheral and myocardial microcirculatory beds in any of the groups (Total group: r = -0.07, SEE = 0.70, CAD: r = 0.14, SEE = 0.48, SX: r = 0.17, SEE = 0.30, DCM: r = -0.11, SEE = 0.71, NC: r = -0.19, SEE = 0.80). CONCLUSION No correlations between myocardial and peripheral perfusion (reserve) were found in different patient populations in the same PET session. This suggests a functional difference between peripheral and myocardial flow in the response to intravenously administered adenosine stress.
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- A M Scholtens
- Department of Imaging, University Medical Center Utrecht, E01.132, P.O. Box 85500, 3508GA Utrecht, The Netherlands.
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Marciniak M, Claus P, Streb W, Marciniak A, Boettler P, McLaughlin M, D'hooge J, Rademakers F, Bijnens B, Sutherland GR. The quantification of dipyridamole induced changes in regional deformation in normal, stunned or infarcted myocardium as measured by strain and strain rate: an experimental study. Int J Cardiovasc Imaging 2007; 24:365-76. [PMID: 17909981 DOI: 10.1007/s10554-007-9269-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/30/2007] [Accepted: 09/11/2007] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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UNLABELLED Strain rate imaging (SRI) during dobutamine stress-echocardiography (DSE) has been shown to differentiate between ischemic substrates based on the segmental response. Dipyridamole stress echo (DIPSE) is currently used as an alternative to DSE in detecting coronary artery disease. The aim of this study was: (a) to determine the normal response in peak-systolic myocardial strain (S) and strain-rate (SR) during DIPSE and (b) to compare the S and SR responses of DSE and DIPSE in the same chronically ischemic/infarcted segments in the setting of single vessel disease. METHODS The deformation response to DIPSE was studied in 7 normal pigs and in an additional 18 pigs, with a spectrum of ischemic substrates. S and SR data were extracted from a posterior wall "at risk" segment at baseline and during both DSE and DIPSE. The animals were divided into different ischemic substrate (stunning, non-transmural and transmural infarction), based on the DSE response as previously suggested. RESULTS In normal myocardium, dipyridamole induced no changes in regional systolic deformation neither during nor after the infusion. Furthermore there was no detectable response in S and SR in segments with either a non-transmural or a transmural infarction. However, in myocardial segments with a DSE "stunning response", both end systolic S and peak-systolic SR tended to "normalize" at peak dipyridamole dose. CONCLUSIONS These results suggest that dipyridamole does not induce changes in regional deformation in normal or (partially) infarcted myocardium. Only in stunned myocardium (in the setting of single-vessel disease), dipyridamole tends to normalize deformation.
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Matsumoto N, Sato Y, Kunimasa T, Matsuo S, Kato M, Yoda S, Suzuki Y, Tani S, Takahashi M, Saito S. Noncompaction of the ventricular myocardium mimicking ischemic cardiomyopathy. Ann Nucl Med 2006; 20:639-41. [PMID: 17294676 DOI: 10.1007/bf02984663] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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A 68-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital because of left ventricular failure. Myocardial perfusion single-photon emission computed tomography demonstrated a non-reversible perfusion defect in the anterolateral left ventricular segments and reduced ejection fraction, findings consisted with ischemic cardiomyopathy accompanied by lateral wall infarction. Coronary angiogram was normal, but the left ventriculogram showed prominent trabeculations in the apical and anterolateral segments. The left ventricular ejection fraction was 28%. Cine magnetic resonance imaging demonstrated prominent trabeculations and deep intertrabecular recesses, findings consistent with noncompaction of the ventricular myocardium. Myocardial hypoperfusion or necrosis in the noncompacted myocardium may be the cause of myocardial damage and possibly the basis of left ventricular failure.
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- Naoya Matsumoto
- Department of Cardiology, Nihon University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
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