Dr Gibbons from the Nuffield Dept of Women’s & Reproductive Health reported continued positive results from our DETECT study comparing imaging of superficial peritoneal #endometriosis by ⁹⁹ᵐTc-maraciclatide with laparoscopic surgery at #EEC2024 bit.ly/4eaOtbs

Akira Endo the Japanese scientist who discovered statins has died aged 90 He found the LDL cholesterol-lowering compounds in 1973 and the drugs have saved millions of lives theguardian.com/society/articl… European Atherosclerosis Society Primary Care Cardiovascular Society HEART UK British Heart Foundation BBC Breaking News International Atherosclerosis Society (IAS)

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Congratulations to Jimmy on his OBE! UCLH INM in the King’s Birthday Honours.

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“a few billion atoms of rubidium” ‘It’s the perfect place’: London Underground hosts tests for ‘quantum compass’ that could replace GPS theguardian.com/science/articl…

Out in Circle Cardiovascular Imaging: Myocardial Blood Flow by Magnetic Resonance in Patients With Suspected Coronary Stenosis: Comparison to PET and Invasive Physiology. ahajournals.org/doi/pdf/10.116…

When to suspect cardiac amyloidosis? Echo features: 🔹Nondilated LV with thickened walls 🔹E/A > 2 and E/e’ > 14 🔹Biatrial enlargement 🔹Valvular thickening 🔹Apical sparing strain pattern …and the following clinical features, 🖼️ via British Society of Echocardiography:

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Spectacular images. The brain like never seen before. Performance characteristics of the NeuroEXPLORER, a next-generation human brain PET/CT imager. ow.ly/27Qw50SkfVQ #NuclearMedicine #PETscan #BrainImaging Yale Department of Radiology & Biomedical Imaging Yale BME Ramsey Badawi Simon Cherry

We are pleased to share positive topline results from our HELIOS-B Phase 3 study of vutrisiran, an investigational #RNAi therapeutic in development for the treatment of #ATTR #amyloidosis w/ cardiomyopathy. Read the press release: bit.ly/3VwvRtY #RNAiTherapeutics #siRNA

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At a loss on how to manage cardiac sarcoidosis? Have a look at this Consensus Statement of the ESC Associations on how to assess, diagnose and manage these patients in an interdisciplinary MDT - it is free at academic.oup.com/eurheartj/adva…

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4 July 1934. Polish-born Radioactivity pioneer Marie Sklodowska-Curie died (aged 66). She was the 1st woman to win a Nobel Prize, the only woman to win the Nobel Prize twice, and the only person to win the Nobel Prize in two different scientific fields.

CT Attenuation Correction (CTAC) – Beyond just #CAC? #AI-based CTAC derivation can accurately estimate cardiac volumes and mass to improve risk assessment from attenuation maps in hybrid SPECT-CT imaging. bit.ly/3Ln3PMK #JACCIMG #MMI #CVnuc #YesCCT

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Commission approves €2 billion Dutch measure to support production of medical radioisotopes for cancer diagnosis and treatment ec.europa.eu/commission/pre…

Prognostic Value of Left Ventricular 18F-Florbetapir Uptake in Systemic Light-Chain Amyloidosis | JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.…