Dominik Etter and Alexia Rossi show that pericoronary adipose tissue attenuation, an imaging biomarker reflecting perivascular inflammation, is significantly affected by acquisition and reconstruction parameters. They recommend using the same tube voltage and reconstruction type when perivascular inflammation is assessed in multicenter and longitudinal studies.
Cathérine Gebhard and Vera Regitz-Zagrosek discuss the effects of sex and gender on the pathogenesis, clinical manifestations, and treatment responses of patients with ischemic heart disease or heart failure.
Ahmed Haider and colleagues illustrate the vast potential of assessing brain cholesterol metabolism, which has been broadly implicated in neurological disorders, using positron emission tomography.
Congratulations to Bianca Gysi, MD doctoral student at the University Hospital Basel, for winning best oral presentation at the Swiss Society of Intensive Care Medicine Annual Meeting in Basel with her talk «Sex versus gender-related characteristics: which predicts clinical outcomes of acute COVID-19?»

What are the challenges of cardiac imaging in women? And how do we overcome them? Our review article comprising clinical cases and guideline recommendations is now available online at Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging.
Institut für Intensivmedizin
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CH-8063 Zürich
Department of Nuclear Medicine
Cardiovascular Gender Medicine
Rämistrasse 100
CH-8091 Zurich
University of Basel
Department of Clinical Research
Petersgraben 4
CH-4031 Basel
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