BACKGROUND Caffeine is one of the most widely consumed pharmacologically active substances. Its acute effect on myocardial blood flow is widely unknown. Our aim was to assess the acute effect of caffeine in a dose corresponding to two cups of coffee on myocardial blood flow (MBF) in coronary artery disease (CAD). METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS MBF was measured with (15)O-labelled H2O and Posi...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the impact of correcting myocardial signal saturation on the accuracy of absolute myocardial blood flow (MBF) measurements. MATERIALS AND METHODS We performed 15 dual bolus first-pass perfusion studies in 7 dogs during global coronary vasodilation and variable degrees of coronary artery stenosis. We compared microsphere MBF to MBF calculated from uncorrected and correct...

OBJECTIVES Myocardial blood flow (MBF) in children late after arterial switch operation (ASO) was investigated quantitatively by positron emission tomography (PET). BACKGROUND In children with transposition of the great arteries (TGA), ASO is widely accepted as the management of choice. The long-term patency of coronary arteries after surgical transfer to the neo-aorta, however, remains a con...

زمینه و هدف: microRNA (miRNA) دستة جدیدی از شاخص‌های زیستی‌اند که در سطح سلولی مسیرهای پیام‌رسانی تغییرات ساختاری عملکردی قلبی درگیرند. همچنین تمرینات تناوبی شدید (HIIT) شامل وهله‌های فعالیت ورزشی نسبتاً با مدت زمان کوتاه است دوره‌های بازیافت فعال یا غیرفعال یکدیگر جدا شده‌اند، می‌تواند سبب بهبود آمادگی قلبی-تنفسی متغیرهای فیزیولوژیک متناظر آن افراد سالم شود. ازاین‌رو پژوهش حاضر نظر دارد اثر هشت...

A double-blind study of the effect of three beta-adrenoceptor blocking drugs (beta-blockers) on exercise muscle blood flow (MBF) in 14 normotensive volunteers was carried out. MBF was measured by the xenon-133 clearance technique. MBF was not altered by placebo, sotalol or labetalol. Atenolol significantly reduced MBF compared with placebo, sotalol and labetalol. We conclude that sotalol and la...

Background Quantification of myocardial blood flow (MBF) on firstpass dynamic contrast enhanced (DCE ) MR perfusion imaging has been performed by several different methods. However MBF estimates are dependent on the analysis model used, as the absolute concentration of the contrast agent during first pass is not known. To improve the accuracy of the MBF estimates calibration is required. We pro...

Although a parametric image of myocardial blood flow (MBF) can be obtained from H2O PET using factor and cluster analysis, this approach is limited when factor analysis fails to extract each cardiac component. In this study, a linear least-squares (LLS) method for estimating MBF and generating a MBF parametric image was developed to overcome this limitation. The computer simulation was performe...

UNLABELLED Routine quantification of myocardial blood flow (MBF) requires robust and reproducible processing of dynamic image series. The goal of this study was to evaluate the reproducibility of 3 highly automated software programs commonly used for absolute MBF and flow reserve (stress/rest MBF) assessment with (82)Rb PET imaging. METHODS Dynamic rest and stress (82)Rb PET scans were select...

BACKGROUND Measuring the rate of clearance of carbon-11 labelled acetate from myocardium using positron emission tomography (PET) is an accepted technique for noninvasively assessing myocardial oxygen consumption. Initial myocardial uptake of [(11)C]acetate, however, is related to myocardial blood flow (MBF) and several tracer kinetic models for quantifying MBF using [(11)C]acetate have been pr...