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The Cardiovascular CME podcast is a new educational offering from Mayo Clinic, featuring content geared towards physicians, physician assistants, and nurse practitioners who are interested in exploring a multitude of cardiology-related topics. Tune in and subscribe to explore today’s most pressing cardiology topics with your colleagues at Mayo Clinic and gain valuable insights that can be directly applied to your practice. No CME credit offered for podcast episodes at this time.
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Monday May 24, 2021
Monday May 24, 2021
Myocardial Blood Flow Assessed With PET Scanning in the Evaluation of Patients With Chest Pain
Guest: John P. Bois, M.D.
Host: Malcolm R. Bell, M.D.
What is typically seen in positron emission tomography (PET) imaging is qualitative: Before and after pictures of patients at rest and under stress that are used to identify any kind of relative profusion defects. Quantitative PET takes this technique a step further, quantifying blood flow to the heart tissue in milliliters per minute per gram of myocardial tissue. In essence, traditional PET takes a photo of the heart before and after, but qualitative PET produces a video of the blood flow into the heart over time.
Joining us today to discuss myocardial blood flow and coronary flow reserve as assessed with PET scanning in the evaluation of patients with chest pain is John P. Bois, M.D., a consultant in Ischemic Heart Disease and Critical Care with a joint appointment in Radiology here at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. He's also co-director of our Chest Pain and Coronary Physiology Clinic, a nuclear cardiology specialist and an assistant professor of medicine.
Specific topics discussed:
- Quantitative versus qualitative PET: Quantifying blood flow to the heart tissue
- Automatic quantification via mathematical modeling
- Quantitative PET in patients with obstructive artery disease
- Improved testing accuracy with quantitative PET
- Diagnostic and prognostic evaluation of patients with challenging symptoms
- Future applications: standardization ad studies
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No CME credit offered for this episode.
Podcast transcript can be found here.