title: Newer applications of nuclear cardiology in systolic heart failure: detecting coronary artery disease and guiding device therapy.
abstract: Radionuclide-based imaging techniques can be applied to the heart failure population to derive clinically useful information. This review discusses the specific role of myocardial perfusion imaging for determining heart failure etiology, and the potential application of radionuclide-based imaging techniques for the optimal selection of patients with heart failure for device therapy.
authors.affiliation: University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Cardiovascular Institute, Presbyterian University Hospital, A-429 Scaife Hall, 200 Lothrop Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA.
authors.forename: Mati
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Friehling
authors.forename: Prem
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Soman
mesh_terms: D058406:Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy; D055426:Cardiac-Gated Single-Photon Emission Computer-Assisted Tomography; D017147:Defibrillators, Implantable; D054143:Heart Failure, Systolic / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D055414:Myocardial Perfusion Imaging / Q000379:methods*