JNC CardioConnect

In this special episode of JNC CardioConnect, Editor-in-Chief, Marcelo Di Carli, MD, MASNC is joined by Omar F. Abou Ezzeddine, MD, MS, Prem Soman, MD, PhD, MASNC, Sharmila Dorbala, MD, MPH, MASNC and Ahmad Masri, MD, MS to discuss the rapidly evolving landscape of cardiac amyloidosis — from the biology that explains what we see on imaging, to best practices in cardiac amyloid radionuclide scintigraphy, the promise of amyloid...

Women with heart disease have long been underserved by the very tools designed to diagnose them, but that may be changing. In this episode, Editor-in-Chief, Marcelo Di Carli, MD, MASNC is joined by Stephen Horgan, MB, BCh PhD, FASNC, Jamshid Maddahi, MD, MASNC, and Panithaya Chareonthaitawee, MD, MASNC and break down a landmark sub-study from the Aurora trial showing that F-18 flurpiridaz PET significantly outperforms traditional S...

In this episode, Editor-in-Chief Marcelo F. Di Carli, MD, MASNC leads a timely conversation on the future of cardiovascular imaging training with Ron Blankstein, MD, and Lawrence Phillips, MD, MASNC. The conversation unpacks the new ACC-sponsored advanced imaging training statement and why multimodality competency is essential for nuclear cardiologists seeking to remain clinically relevant in a world of disease-centered imaging.&nb...

What if SPECT could bring the promise of myocardial blood flow quantification to every lab on earth?

In this episode, Editor-in-Chief Marcelo Di Carli, MD, MASNC sits down with Yufan Gu, MD and Lei Wang, MD from the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Fuwai Hospital in Beijing, China, and ASNC President Panithaya Chareonthaitawee, MD, MASNC to discuss a novel perfusion radiotracer- 4-BOH- poised to transform SPECT myocardial perfu...

What’s the real value of a perfect image if no one understands it? In this episode of JNC CardioConnect, Editor-in-Chief Marcelo Di Carli, MD, MASNC sits down with Krishna K. Patel, MD, MS, FASNC and John A. Spertus, MD to discuss their manuscript Patient-centered reporting: Should this become the new standard? and to explore how patient-centered reporting can transform diagnostic imaging from data-heavy reports into meaningf...

JNC CardioConnect has expanded to include a new episode format that homes in on the most important pearls from each new research article in the latest Journal of Nuclear Cardiology issue.

 In a Heartbeat episodes feature JNC Early Career Editorial Board members and JNC associate editors joining Editor-in-Chief Marcelo F. Di Carli, MD, MASNC, for focused roundtable-style conversation that unpacks the latest science and implica...

In this episode, Editor-in-Chief Marcelo F. Di Carli, MD, MASNC, is joined by Steven C. Scherping, III, MD, and ASNC President-elect Jamieson M. Bourque, MD, MHS, FASNC, from the University of Virginia to discuss their manuscript 'The prevalence and prognostic impact of additive abnormal stress exercise markers in patients with normal stress myocardial perfusion imaging.' Also joining the conversation is Diana M. López, MD fro...

In this episode, Editor-in-Chief Marcelo F. Di Carli, MD, MASNC, is joined by Waseem Hijazi, MD and Robert JH Miller, MD, FASNC from the University of Calgary to discuss their manuscript 'Association of medical therapies with survival according to SPECT MPI findings'. The study shows that integrating coronary artery calcium scoring with SPECT MPI improves risk stratification and guides more effective medical therapy in patients wit...

In this episode, Editor-in-Chief Marcelo F. Di Carli, MD, MASNC, is joined by Daniel S. Berman, MD, MASNC and Donghee Han, MD, from the Cedars Sinai Medical Center, to discuss their manuscript ‘Independent prognostic significance of myocardial flow reserve over coronary artery calcium, myocardial perfusion, and clinical variables in patients without known coronary artery disease, according to diabetes...

In this episode, Editor-in-Chief Marcelo F. Di Carli, MD, MASNC, is joined by leading experts Panithaya Chareonthaitawee, MD, from the Mayo Clinic, Krishna Patel, MD, MS, FASNC, from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, along with Rob S.B. Beanlands, MD, MASNC, from the University of Ottawa Heart Institute, to discuss the JNC Compendium on Flurpiridaz PET Myocardial Perfusion Imaging....

In this episode, Editor-in-Chief Marcelo F. Di Carli, MD, MASNC is joined by leading experts Jamieson M. Bourque, MD, MHS, FASNC from the University of Virginia and Sarah AM. Cuddy, MD, FASNC from the Brigham and Women’s Hospital along with Associate Editor, Nishant Shah, MD, FASNC, from the Brown University Alpert Medical School to discuss the evolving role of imaging in diagnosing cardiac amyloidosis.

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In the third episode of JNC CardioConnect, Journal of Nuclear Cardiology (JNC) Editor-in-Chief Marcelo F. Di Carli, MD, MASNC, speaks with Chaitanya Rojulpote, MD and Paco E. Bravo, MD from the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, along with Associate Editor, Sanjay Divakaran, MD, FASNC, from the Brigham and Women's Hospital about the article, Assessing the effect of repeat positron emission tomography im...

Radionuclide perfusion imaging remains the dominant force in coronary artery disease assessment, with SPECT leading the charge and PET on a steady rise. In this episode of JNC CardioConnect, Journal of Nuclear Cardiology (JNC) Editor-in-Chief Marcelo F. Di Carli, MD, MASNC, speaks with physicians at Houston Methodist Hospital to discuss their recent article and break down the latest Medicare data, highlighting usage trend...

In this episode of JNC CardioConnect, Journal of Nuclear Cardiology (JNC) Editor-in-Chief Marcelo F. Di Carli, MD, MASNC, speaks with Sharmila Dorbala, MD, MPH, MASNC, Director of Nuclear Cardiology at the Brigham and Women's Hospital and Professor of Radiology and Medicine at Harvard Medical School, about the article, "Quantitative 99mTc-pyrophosphate myocardial uptake: Changes on transthyretin stabilization therapy", published re...