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Specialists from UAB Medicine’s world-renowned cardiovascular imaging team offer leading-edge diagnostic imaging services for coronary artery disease, congestive heart failure, cardiac arrhythmias, cardiac valve disease, and other heart and vessel conditions. UAB IMAGING AREAS ACCREDITED BY THE INTERSOCIETAL ACCREDITATION COMMISSION (IAC) INCLUDE: • Cardiac Electrophysiology UAB Hospital HIGHLIGHTS Standardized clinical practice protocols across all UAB Medicine imaging services are designed to ensure best practices and exceptional quality imaging. • Echocardiography UAB Hospital, UAB Hospital-Highlands, The Kirklin Clinic of UAB Hospital, and The Kirklin Clinic at Acton Road Advanced cardiovascular imaging modalities: • Vascular Testing UAB Hospital-Highlands, The Kirklin Clinic at Acton Road CARDIAC AND CORONARY CT • Anatomic and coronary imaging • Coronary calcium scoring CARDIAC MRI • Cardiac MRI – morphology • Cardiac MRI – velocity flow • Cardiovascular MRA • Nuclear/PET The Kirklin Clinic at Acton Road VOLUMES 2016-2019 CARDIOVASCULAR IMAGING SERVICES UAB continues to experience growth in all cardiovascular imaging modalities. ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY VOLUMES – ALL UAB MEDICINE LOCATIONS 2016-2019 CARDIAC MRI VOLUME 2016-2019 CARDIAC CT 2016-2019 CARDIOGRAPHICS – ALL UAB MEDICINE LOCATIONS 2016-2019 • Cardiovascular MRI UAB Cardiovascular MRI CARDIAC MONITORING • Electrocardiogram (EKG), Holter monitoring, event recorders • Mobile cardiac outpatient telemetry, 24-hour blood pressure monitoring CARDIAC ULTRASOUND • Echocardiograms; 3-D echocardiogram • Echocardiogram with strain imaging • Transesophageal echocardiogram (TEE), 2-D and 3-D • Exercise stress echocardiogram • Dobutamine stress echocardiogram • Exercise stress test NUCLEAR CARDIOLOGY • Graded Exercise stress test • Metabolic stress test • Nuclear stress test – treadmill Utilizing CZT (cadium zinc • Nuclear stress test – chemical telluride) detector camera • Multigated acquisition scan (MUGA) • Viability • Perfusion rest only • Cardiac amyloid studies • Cardiac PET scan – Perfusion – flow assessment – Inflammation – cardiac sarcoid – Myocardial viability NUCLEAR CARDIOLOGY VOLUMES – TKC & ACTON ROAD LOCATIONS 2016-2019 } 32 UAB Cardiovascular Institute Annual Report SELECTED PUBLICATIONS • Murray CSG, Salama AY, Akdogan RE, Harb S, Nahar T, Nanda NC. Assessment of tricuspid valve by two- and three-dimensional echocardiography with special reference to percutaneous repair and prosthetic valve implantation procedures. Echocardiography. 2018 Sep;35(9):1419-1438. PMID: 30209853 [PubMed - in process] • Gupta K, Kakar TS, Gupta A, Singh A, Gharpure N, Aryal S, Hawi R, Lloyd SG, Booker J, Hage FG, Prabhu SD, Nanda NC, Bajaj NS. Role of left ventricle deformation analysis in stress echocardiography for significant coronary artery disease detection: A diagnostic study meta-analysis. Echocardiography. 2019 May 22. doi: 10.1111/echo.14365 • Bhambhvani P, Hage FG, Iskandrian AE. A quick glance at selected topics in this issue. J Nucl Cardiol. 2019 Sep 6;. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 31493292 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] uabmedicine.org 33

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