ESC Working Groups

Congratulations to Johanna Silvola from Turku, Finland and colleagues who discovered that a Gallium-68 labeled peptide which targets vascular adhesion protein -1 is accumulated in atherosclerotic plaques. These investigators believe that it might be a novel, promising PET tracer to detect plaque inflammation.
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Peptide receptor radionuclide therapy (PRRT) with radiolabeled somatostatin analogs, an established treatment for cancer patients, could offer a novel therapeutic approach to decrease levels of inflammation in the atherosclerotic plaques of patients with CVD reports an abstract study at the ICNC11, International Conference on Nuclear Cardiology and Cardiac CT.  Read more

A new stress test protocol that investigates reducing the use of perfusion imaging in low risk patients undergoing SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging for possible angina symptoms was found to be diagnostically safe, revealed a US retrospective analysis.  The study predicted that using exercise ECG stress testing alone in patients with high exercise capacity would have had no adverse effects on their prognosis at five years.  Read more

With a particularly strong focus on abstracts and young researchers this year, don't miss the oral sessions, the Young Investigator Award session, best regional abstracts from around the world and all the great research presented in the poster area.

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ESC Journals article - open access
Eriksson, Bolger, Ebbers and Carlhäll
Patients with mild heart failure (HF) who are clinically compensated may have normal left ventricular (LV) stroke volume (SV). Despite this, altered intra-ventricular flow patterns have been recognized in these subjects. We hypothesized that, compared with normal LVs, flow in myopathic LVs would demonstrate a smaller... Read the free full article

Discover the European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Imaging.