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Selected Bibliography

 

1.       Exercise Testing: ACC/AHA 2002 Guideline Update for Exercise Testing: A report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (Committee on Exercise Testing). J Am Coll Cardiol, 2002 Oct 16:40(8):1531-40. www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/01.CIR.0000034670.06526.15

 

2.       Exercise Standards for Testing and Training: A Scientific Statement from the American Heart Association. Circulation, 2013; 128:873-934. www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/CIR.0b013e31829b5b44 

 

3.       Recommendations for Clinical Exercise Facilities: A Scientific Statement from the American Heart Association. Circulation, 2009; 119;3144-3161. www.ahajournals.org/doi/epub/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.109.192520   

 

4.       American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Clinical Competence Statement on Stress Testing: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association/American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine Task Force on Clinical Competence. Circulation, 2000;102:1726-1738. www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/01.cir.102.14.1726 

 

5.       Supervision of Exercise Testing by Nonphysicians – A Scientific Statement from the American Heart Association. Circulation, 2014;130:1014-1027. www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/CIR.0000000000000101

 

6.       Society of Nuclear Medicine Procedure Guidelines. http://interactive.snm.org/index.cfm?PageID=772&RPID=1795

 

7.       ASNC Imaging Guidelines for SPECT Nuclear Cardiology Procedures: Stress, Protocols, and Tracers. Milena J. Henzlova , W. Lane Duvall, Andrew J. Einstein, Mark I. Travin, Hein J. Verberne, 2016. http://asnc.org/files/Guidelines%20and%20Quality/ASNC%20SPECT%20ProtocolsTracers%20Guidelines2016.pdf

 

8.       Guide for Diagnostic Nuclear Medicine and Radiopharmaceutical Therapy, Jeffrey A. Siegel, 2004. Society of Nuclear Medicine. www.nrc.gov/docs/ML0222/ML022250828.pdf

 

9.       SNMMI Nuclear Medicine Radiation Dose Tool. snmmi.org/ClinicalPractice/doseTool.aspx?ItemNumber=11216&navItemNumber=11218

 

10.    Recommendations for Reducing Radiation Exposure in Myocardial Perfusion Imaging. Cerqueira, Manuel D., et al, J Nucl Cardiol, 2010; 17:709-18. www.jacc.org/doi/pdf/10.1016/s0735-1097%2802%2902164-2

 

11.    ASNC Preferred Practice Statement: Patient Centered Imaging. Depuey, G., et al., J Nucl Cardiol. 2012:19(2):185-215. www.asnc.org/files/PCI%202012.pdf

 

12.    Patient-Centered Imaging: Shared Decision Making for Cardiac Imaging Procedures with Exposure to Ionizing Radiation. Einstein AJ, et al., J Am Coll Cardiol. 2014:63(15):1480-1489. www.jacc.org/doi/full/10.1016/j.jacc.2013.10.092

 

13.    ACC/AHA/ASE/ASNC/HRS/IAC/Mended Hearts/NASCI/RSNA/SAIP/SCAI/SCCT/SCMR/SNMMI 2014 Health Policy Statement on Use of Noninvasive Cardiovascular Imaging. Mark DB, et al., J Am Coll Cardiol. 2014;63(7):699-721. www.jacc.org/doi/full/10.1016/j.jacc.2013.02.002

 

14.    ACCF/ASNC/ACR/AHA/ASE/SCCT/SCMR/SNM Appropriate Use Criteria - 2009 Appropriate Use Criteria for Cardiac Radionuclide Imaging. www.asnc.org/files/AUC%20for%20Cardiac%20Radionuclide%20Imaging.pdf

 

15.    ACCF/AHA/ASE/ASNC/HFSA/HRS/SCAI/STS 2013 Multimodality Appropriate Use Criteria for Detection and Risk Assessment of Stable Ischemia Heart Disease. J Am Coll Cardiol, 2014;63(4):380-406. www.jacc.org/doi/full/10.1016/j.jacc.2013.11.009

 

16.    ACCF/ACR/AHA/ASE/ASNC/HRS/NASCI/RSNA/SAIP/SCAI/SCCT/SCMR 2008 Health Policy Statement on Structured Reporting in Cardiovascular Imaging. www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.108.191365

 

17.    NRC:10 CFR Part 35 – Medical Use of Byproduct Material. nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/cfr/part035


18.    ASNC/AHA/ASE/EANM/HFSA/ISA/SCMR/SNMMI Expert Consensus Recommendations for Multimodality Imaging in Cardiac Amyloidosis: Part 1 of 2-Evidence Base and Standardized Methods of Imaging. Dorbala S., et al. J Nucl Cardiol. 2019 Dec;26(6):2065-2123. doi: 10.1007/s12350-019-01760-6. PMID: 31468376.


18.    ASNC/AHA/ASE/EANM/HFSA/ISA/SCMR/SNMMI Expert Consensus Recommendations for Multimodality Imaging in Cardiac Amyloidosis: Part 2 of 2-Diagnostic Criteria and Appropriate Utilization. Dorbala S., et al. J Nucl Cardiol. 2020 Apr;27(2):659-673. doi: 10.1007/s12350-019-01761-5. PMID: 31468377.

18.   
Addendum to ASNC/AHA/ASE/EANM/HFSA/ISA/SCMR/SNMMI Expert Consensus Recommendations for Multimodality Imaging in Cardiac Amyloidosis: Part 1 of 2—Evidence Base and Standardized Imaging Methods. Dorbala S., et al. doi:10.1007/s12350-019-01760-6.