Abstract | BACKGROUND: Although poststress myocardial stunning is regarded as a marker for severe coronary artery disease (CAD), no study has yet compared the diagnostic value of poststress stunning with transient ischemic dilation (TID) of the left ventricle (LV) for detecting multivessel CAD. METHODS AND RESULTS: A total of 271 patients with suspected or known CAD underwent adenosine triphosphate ( ATP) loading and at-rest gated single-photon emission computed tomography. We assessed myocardial perfusion with a 20-segment model, and analyzed the changes in LV volumetric analysis induced by ATP and an automatically derived TID ratio. In 147 patients with multivessel CAD, the prevalence of multi-territorial ischemia was higher, and the post- ATP increase in end-systolic volume (ESV) and TID ratio were greater, than in the 124 with insignificant or single-vessel CAD (P<0.0001, for all cases). The receiver-operating characteristic curves analysis revealed cutoff values for ESV of 5 ml and a TID ratio of 1.11. Multivariate logistic regression analysis revealed that the combination of a poststress increase in ESV of ≥5 ml and multi-territorial ischemia best identified multivessel CAD, with a sensitivity of 78% and a specificity of 84%, whereas the TID ratio was not shown to be an independent predictor. CONCLUSIONS:
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Authors | Satoshi Hida, Taishiro Chikamori, Hirokazu Tanaka, Yuko Igarashi, Chie Shiba, Tsuguhisa Hatano, Yasuhiro Usui, Akira Yamashina |
Journal | Circulation journal : official journal of the Japanese Circulation Society
(Circ J)
Vol. 76
Issue 2
Pg. 430-8
( 2012)
ISSN: 1347-4820 [Electronic] Japan |
PMID | 22185710
(Publication Type: Clinical Trial, Comparative Study, Journal Article, Validation Study)
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Chemical References |
- Radiopharmaceuticals
- Adenosine Triphosphate
- Technetium Tc 99m Sestamibi
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Topics |
- Adenosine Triphosphate
- Aged
- Aged, 80 and over
- Coronary Angiography
- Coronary Artery Disease
(diagnostic imaging)
- Coronary Vessels
(diagnostic imaging)
- Female
- Humans
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Multivariate Analysis
- Myocardial Ischemia
(diagnostic imaging)
- Myocardial Perfusion Imaging
(methods, standards)
- Myocardial Stunning
(diagnostic imaging)
- Radiopharmaceuticals
- Reproducibility of Results
- Sensitivity and Specificity
- Technetium Tc 99m Sestamibi
- Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon
(methods, standards)
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