Nuclear cardiology - Current status of the clinical application.

This updated position paper from the German Society of Nuclear Medicine (DGN) and the German Cardiac Society (DGK) replaces the original statement from 2018. It gives an overview of the fields of application and the current value of nuclear cardiological imaging. The topics covered include chronic coronary syndrome, including viability diagnostics and the special value of positron emission tomography (PET), cardiomyopathies, cardiac sarcoidosis, amyloidosis, infectious endocarditis and inflammation of cardiac implants.