Atlas of nuclear medicine, volume 2, lung and heart

Cardiovascular Bibliography of Selected Reviews* ANTIHYPERTENSIVE

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CORONARY

Effectiveness of drug therapy in hypertension: status. A review. Freis ED. Clrc Res 28:Suppl 2:70-5, May 71 (25

present

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Dietary fat and coronary Mad J Aust 1:1155-80,

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ARTERIES

heart disease: a review. 29 May 71 (53 ref.)

VESSELS

Responses of rat heart muscle to exercise. Nutr Rev 29:118-B. May 71 (12 ref.)

Arteriosclerotic occlusion in the lower limb. Ellis H. Ann R Co11 Surg Engl 49:137-47, Aug 71 (28 ref.)

ARTERIOSCLEROSIS

HEART

Arteriosclerotic occlusion In the lower limb. Ellls H. Ann R Co11 Burg Engl 49:137-47, Aug 71 (28 ref.)

Responses of rat heart muscle to exercise. Nutr Rev 29:118-B, May 71 (12 ref.)

BLOOD VOLUME DETERMINATION

HEART DISEASES

Accuracy and sources of error in determlning the blood volume with the “Volemetron”. Ulmer HV, et al. Anaestheslst 20:277-82, Aug 71 (18 ref.)

Cllnlcal pathology of cardiac disease. Number thirty-two In a series. Morgan HC. Vet Med Small Anlm Clin 88:717-24, Jul 71 (17 ref.)

CARDIOVASCULAR

DISEASES

MYOCARDIUM

Glucagon: present status in cardiovascular disease. Kones RJ, et al. CUD Pharmacol The? 12:427-44, May-Jun 71 (134 ref.)

Responses of rat heart muscle to exercise. Nutr Rev 29:118-B, May 71 (12 ref.)

CEREBROVASCULAR

THROMBOSIS

DISORDERS

Nonthrombogenlc surfaces: critical review. Salaman EW. Blood 38:509-23, Ott 71 (134 ref.)

Stroke survey at a large MIdwestern teaching hospital. Hardln WB Jr, et al. MO Med 88:828-32, Aug 71 (12 ref.)

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Book Reviews Atlas of Nuclear Medicine, Volume 2, Lung and Heart, by Frank H. DeLand, MD and Henry N. Wagner, Jr., MD. Philadelphia, W. B. Saunders, 284 pages, $20.

The rapidity with which this book can be scanned is no indication of the amount of information that can be gleaned from it. The format is outstanding. The quality of the scan reproductions is excellent, and the brief interpretations are more than adequate to explain the illustrative material. The book is divided into two sections: The first section, covering the lung, makes up three quarters of the book; the final quarter is concerned with the heart. After a brief but adequate, section to explain pulmonary segmental anatomy in relation to the perfusion lung scan, illustrative cases are presented to demonstrate normal variants, pulmonary embolization, pulmonary hypertension and infectious and neoplastic diseases of the lung. Each case presentation includes a brief clinical history, a diagnosis prior to scanning, the interpretation of the scan and the subsequent course of the patient. Scans and radiographs are illustrated for each case. For many cases, line drawings of the segmental anatomy with the abnormal segments indicated are included. These line drawings are most helpful to the reader’s understanding of the interpretation. In two brief pages, the diagnosis of pulmonary embolization by means of lung scanning and the relationships between the scan and the pulmonary arteriogram are well

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explained. The average reader will learn a great deal about the usefulness of lung scanning in diseases other than pulmonary embolization in the second half of this first section. The second section indicates the usefulness of blood pool scanning and nuclear angiography in the evaluation of congenital heart disease, pericardial effusion and mediastinal masses in relation to the great vessels. There are some minor difficulties. At times, a case is presented on several consecutive pages, and it is difficult to compare scans from 1 page to the next. Occasionally, the quality of the reproductions of the chest radiographs is not entirely adequate. On page 221, two of the scans are reversed. Unfortunately, only one page in the lung section is devoted to xenon imaging. The latter represents a rapidly enlarging field of interest in nuclear medicine, and it might have been most helpful to expand this brief section. Moreover, there is no discussion of the combination of perfusion scanning and inhalation scanning in the diagnosis of pulmonary embolization. This Atlas will undoubtedly find its way onto the shelf of the practitioner of nuclear medicine. For the cardiologist or internist interested in the usefulness of modern scanning, it will prove most helpful. DONALD J. PINALS, MD New Rochelle, New York

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