Policy paper nuclear cardiology - Update 2018: Current status of clinical practice

Abstract

The joint position paper of the working community Cardiovascular Nuclear Medicine of the German Society of Nuclear Medicine (DGN) and the working group Nuclear Cardiology Diagnostics of the German Cardiac Society (DKG) updates the former 2009 paper. It is the purpose of this paper to provide an overview about the application fields, the state-of-the-art and the current value of nuclear cardiology imaging. The topics covered are chronic coronary artery disease, including viability imaging, furthermore cardiomyopathies, infective endocarditis, cardiac sarcoidosis and amyloidosis.