The role of myocardial innervation imaging in different clinical scenarios: an expert document of the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging and Cardiovascular Committee of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine

Gimelli, A.; Liga, R.; Agostini, D.; Bengel, F.M.; Ernst, S.; Hyafil, F.; Saraste, A.; Scholte, A.J.H.A.; Verberne, H.J.; Verschure, D.O.; Slart, R.H.J.A.

doi:doi:10.1093/ehjci/jeab007

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Gimelli, A.; Liga, R.; Agostini, D.; Bengel, F.M.; Ernst, S.; Hyafil, F.; ... ; Slart, R.H.J.A. (2021)

The role of myocardial innervation imaging in different clinical scenarios: an expert document of the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging and Cardiovascular Committee of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine

Article / Letter to editor

Cardiac sympathetic activity plays a key role in supporting cardiac function in both health and disease conditions, and nuclear cardiac imaging has always represented the only way for the non-invasive evaluation of the functional integrity of cardiac sympathetic terminals, mainly through the use of radiopharmaceuticals that are analogues of norepinephrine and, in particular, with the use of I-123-mIBG imaging. This technique demonstrates the presence of cardiac sympathetic dysfunction in different cardiac pathologies, linking the severity of sympathetic nervous system impairment to adverse patient's prognosis. This article will outline the state-of-the-art of cardiac I-123-mIBG imaging and define the value and clinical applications in the different fields of cardiovascular diseases.