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CCS/ESC JOINT PLENARY: STATE OF THE ART IMAGING - THE ROLE OF CARDIAC IMAGING OVER THE NEXT 10 YEARS

103 - NUCLEAR IMAGING: WHAT IS THE FUTURE FOR NUCLEAR IMAGING OF THE CARDIAC PATIENT?

Friday, October 28, 2022

9:05 AM – 9:15 AM EDT

Location: Canada Hall 1

Target Audience: General: All cardiovascular (clinical and research) health professionals, Clinical cardiologists, Community cardiologists, Echocardiologists, Electrophysiologists, Heart failure specialists, Magnetic imaging specialist, Multimodality Imaging specialist, Nuclear and CT Imaging specialist, Radiologists, Researchers, Trainee (clinical), Trainee (research)

Presenter(s)

Alessia Gimelli

Head of Nuclear Cardiology Lab
Fondazione Toscana Gabriele Monasterio

Learning Objectives:

At the conclusion of this session, participants will be able to:

describe the technological advancements in echocardiography and how they could be applied to alter patient outcomes;
describe the advancements that may potentially make CMR a more routine aspect of cardiac care;
list specific patient populations that benefit from a cardiac CT in the assessment of chest pain in the emergency room; and
describe the advances in nuclear imaging tests used to manage cardiac patients.