The EACVI Handbook of Nuclear Cardiology

Part of the European Society of Cardiology portfolio of titles, the EACVI Handbook of Nuclear Cardiology serves as a user-friendly clinical guide to the field of nuclear cardiology. Covering all aspects of this ever-expanding area, it is an indispensable tool in the diagnosis and management of patients with heart failure (ischemic and non-ischemic), amyloid heart disease, endocarditis, myocarditis, and cardiac sarcoidosis. The handbook includes many images, tables, and bullet points that can be used daily in your busy practice to refresh your memory on various cardiac pathologies. The illustrations are derived from a typical clinical practice and the easy accessible format allows you as a reader to focus on the “typical findings” of various cardiac pathologies. Written by an international collection of experts this concise and practical handbook will appeal to students, trainees or advanced users; cardiologists, radiologists, cardiac surgeons or technicians, in their everyday practice.

1 - Radionuclide physics
2 - Instrumentation
3 - Radiopharmaceuticals
4 - Radiation safety
5 - Cardiovascular stress
6 - Methodology
7 - Image interpretation
8 - Radionuclide imaging in clinical cardiology
9 - Radionuclide imaging in ischaemic heart disease
10 - Radionuclide imaging in heart failure
11 - Amyloidosis
12 - Radionuclide imaging in myocardial and other disorders
12.1 - Primary myocardial disorders
12.2 - Secondary myocardial disorders
12.3 - Imaging of Infection and other forms of inflammation
13 - Radionuclide imaging in congenital heart disease
14 - Radionuclide imaging in heart and lung disease
15 - Important Finding on Tomographic Images and CT Images for Attenuation correction

Alessia Gimelli is the clinical lead of the Nuclear Cardiology Unit at Fondazione Toscana G. Monasterio, Pisa, Italy, from 2010. She is a cardiologist and nuclear medicine specialist. She has a Masters in Health Management, University of Pisa. Since 2013, she has been leading the quality assurance system for the nuclear medicine department of the FTGM. In October 2019 she won the ESC grant: Women Transforming Leadership Programme (WTLP) run by the Saïd Business School of the University of Oxford (UK). She has deep experience of clinical research on cardiovascular diseases and cardiovascular imaging and has contributed to several international high-profile projects. Dr Gimelli is the EACVI Treasures and member of the ESC Advocacy Committee (2020-2022) and was the EACVI Vice-President and the Chair of Nuclear Cardiology and CT section (2018-2020). Wael Jaber, Professor of Medicine, Cleveland Clinic. Director of Cardiac Imaging CoreLab and Nuclear Cardiology. Trained in Multi-modality cardiac Imaging and published over 400 papers related to echocardiography, valvular heart disease, stress testing, nuclear perfusion and metabolic imaging as well as imaging in amyloid heart disease. Ronny Ralf Buechel, M.D. is the director of the cardiac imaging unit at the Department of Nuclear Imaging of the University Hospital Zürich, Switzerland. He received his medical degree in 2006 and is board certified in nuclear medicine and cardiology. His clinical work and research extends to all fields of non-invasive and multimodality imaging, including SPECT, PET, CT, MRI and echocardiography. He is a professor at the University Zurich, Switzerland. Furthermore, he is a member of the Editorial board of the Journal of Nuclear Cardiology, Frontiers in Cardiovascular Imaging and IMAGING, and, finally, Prof. Buechel is the chair of the EACVI Nuclear Certification and Accreditation Sub-Committee.