JNC CardioConnect has expanded to include a new episode format that homes in on the most important pearls from each new research article in the latest Journal of Nuclear Cardiology issue.

 In a Heartbeat episodes feature JNC Early Career Editorial Board members and JNC associate editors joining Editor-in-Chief Marcelo F. Di Carli, MD, MASNC, for focused roundtable-style conversation that unpacks the latest science and implications for clinical practice or future investigations. Ideal for busy cardiac imagers, In a Heartbeat episodes keep you current on the questions shaping the future of nuclear cardiology.  

In this inaugural editor’s roundtable discussion, Editor-in-Chief Marcelo F. Di Carli, MD, MASNC, is joined by early career editorial board members to summarize the August articles:

• Daniel M. Huck, MD, MPH, commenting on: The prevalence and prognostic impact of additive abnormal stress exercise markers in patients with normal stress myocardial perfusion imaging, by Steven C. Scherping, III, MD, and colleagues.


• Cesia Gallegos-Kattán, MD, MHS, FASNC, commenting on: Diagnostic performance of 18F-flurpiridaz PET myocardial perfusion imaging with total perfusion deficit quantification, by Jennifer M. Renaud, MSc, and colleagues.


• Olivier F. Clerc, MD, MPH, commenting on: Technical evaluation of immediate back-to-back rest-stress positron emission tomography scanning with 18F-flurpiridaz, by Dan J. Kadrmas, PhD, and colleagues.


• Bruno Bezerra Lima, MD, PhD, commenting on: Serial 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography to assess the efficacy of infliximab in steroid refractory cardiac sarcoidosis, by Louise E. Crowley, MRCP, PhD, and colleagues.


• Attila Feher, MD, PhD, commenting on: 82Rb positron emission tomography myocardial blood flow quantification: Influence of arterial input curve quality on diagnostic accuracy, by Hidesato Fujito, MD, PhD, and colleagues.