title: Nuclear imaging in acute cardiac care.
abstract: Various noninvasive nuclear imaging techniques provide powerful information regarding infarct site and size, regional and global ventricular function, myocardial perfusion, metabolic function and viability, as well as myocardial salvage after reperfusion in patients with acute coronary syndromes. This information is valuable to clinicians in streamlining diagnostic and therapeutic decision-making for critically ill cardiac patients.
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California.
authors.forename: S E
authors.initials: SE
authors.lastname: Bingham
authors.forename: D S
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Berman
authors.forename: P K
authors.initials: PK
authors.lastname: Shah
mesh_terms: D000789:Angina, Unstable / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D003422:Critical Care / Q000379:methods*; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000628:therapy; D015425:Myocardial Reperfusion; D015635:Radionuclide Ventriculography; D016698:Technetium Tc 99m Pyrophosphate; D013794:Thallium Radioisotopes; D014055:Tomography, Emission-Computed
chemical_list: D013794:Thallium Radioisotopes; D016698:Technetium Tc 99m Pyrophosphate