{"id":168030,"date":"2023-07-21T20:42:41","date_gmt":"2023-07-22T01:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/novel-radiotracer-demonstrates-high-diagnostic-efficacy-for-obese-patients-with-coronary-artery-disease"},"modified":"2023-07-21T20:42:41","modified_gmt":"2023-07-22T01:42:41","slug":"novel-radiotracer-demonstrates-high-diagnostic-efficacy-for-obese-patients-with-coronary-artery-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/novel-radiotracer-demonstrates-high-diagnostic-efficacy-for-obese-patients-with-coronary-artery-disease","title":{"rendered":"Novel radiotracer demonstrates high diagnostic efficacy for obese patients with coronary artery disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/novel-radiotracer-demonstrates-high-diagnostic-efficacy-for-obese-patients-with-coronary-artery-disease2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A novel PET perfusion radiotracer, <sup>18 <\/sup>F-flurpiridaz, can diagnose coronary artery disease (CAD) in obese patients with a higher sensitivity and specificity compared to <sup>99m <\/sup>Tc-SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI), according to research presented at the <a href=\"https:\/\/am.snmmi.org\/iMIS\/SNMMI-AM\">2023 Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Annual Meeting<\/a>. <sup>18 <\/sup>F-flurpiridaz PET MPI obtained images at a lower radiation dose than <sup>99m <\/sup>Tc-SPECT MPI and performed similarly in both obese and non-obese patients.<\/p>\n<p>Obese individuals frequently have <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/medical+conditions\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">medical conditions<\/a> such as diabetes, high cholesterol, and <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/high+blood+pressure\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">high blood pressure<\/a> that put them at higher risk of developing CAD. Due to these risk factors, imaging obese patients for CAD is very important.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDue to their <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/body+shape\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">body shape<\/a>, it\u2019s often hard to image <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/obese+individuals\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">obese individuals<\/a>,\u201d said Krishna Patel, MD, assistant professor of medicine and cardiology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York. \u201cThis can result in inferior image quality and diagnostic performance despite requiring a higher dose of radiation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A novel PET perfusion radiotracer, 18 F-flurpiridaz, can diagnose coronary artery disease (CAD) in obese patients with a higher sensitivity and specificity compared to 99m Tc-SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI), according to research presented at the 2023 Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Annual Meeting. 18 F-flurpiridaz PET MPI obtained images at a lower [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}