Barts Heart Centre is one of the leading specialist cardiovascular centres in the UK, offering contemporary, state-of-the-art treatments for the full range of heart conditions. Imaging provides an important part of the diagnostic pathway of these patients, and for many decades myocardial perfusion scintigraphy (MPS) using radioactive tracers imaged with gamma cameras has been the […]
Maria Burniston, Leon Menezes, Leanne Price
Barts Health NHS Trust
Amyloidosis is a multisystem disease characterised by the extracellular deposition of abnormally folded protein fibrils. Twenty-seven different types of protein can form such amyloid fibrils in humans, however, two commonly involve the heart: transthyretin (ATTR) and immunoglobulin light chains (AL). ATTR can be associated either with a mutation in the TTR gene (hereditary ATTR) or […]
Dr Paul Scully, Dr Leon Menezes
Barts Heart Centre, St Bartholomew's Hospital
The use of positron emission tomography (PET) is well-established in the management of adult tumours. However, experience in the use of PET in the paediatric population is more limited. Children are not just small adults; they differ in their psychology, normal physiology and pathophysiology. Furthermore, different tumour entities or subtypes with different biology may be […]
Ali Vahed, Leon Menezes
UCL Institute of Nuclear Medicine