Imaging of Inflammation and Infection in Cardiovascular Diseases

This book addresses the most relevant imaging techniques in order to detect inflammation and infection in the most common cardiovascular diseases. The book presents data concerning molecular imaging (SPECT and PET) and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for each disease, with a special focus on the emerging role of hybrid PET/MR imaging. Different non-ischemic and ischemic diseases as well as cardiac infections are addressed in detail; these include: Cardiac sarcoidosis, Cardiac amyloidosis, the vulnerable plaque, Post-infarction inflammatory alterations, Pericarditis, Myocarditis, Cardiac devices infections, and Endocarditis.
The book also provides a comprehensive discussion on new targets and new tracers, to date mostly investigated at a pre-clinical stage, thus constituting an excellent basis for translational imaging. Imaging of Inflammation and Infection in Cardiovascular Diseases will be of interest not only for experts in clinical imaging, but also pre-clinical scientists and will be invaluable for both nuclear medicine physicians and radiologists.

Dr. med. Federico Caobelli is the responsible for Nuclear Cardiology in the Clinic of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine of the University Hospital Basel, University of Basel, a leading academic Institution in Switzerland. He worked as honorary clinical-researcher at Royal Brompton Hospital in London (UK) and as post-doc researcher at Hannover Medical School (Germany), with a main research interest in cardiovascular imaging. He is Fellow of the European Board of Nuclear Medicine and Committee Member in the European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM) and European Society of Cardiovascular Radiology (ESCR). Furthermore, he is Chair of the cardiovascular study group of the Swiss Society of Nuclear Medicine (SGNM). He authored more than 70 peer-reviewed articles, mostly as first and leading author.