| Autor: |
Mahmarian, John J., Boyce, Terri M., Goldberg, Ronald K., Cocanougher, Mary K., Roberts, Robert, Verani, Mario S. |
| Zdroj: |
Journal of the American College of Cardiology; February 1990, Vol. 15 Issue: 2 p318-329, 12p |
| Abstrakt: |
The clinical utility of exercise thallium-201 single photon emission computed tomography was investigated in 360 consecutive patients who had concomitant coronary arteriography. Tomographic images were assessed visually and from computer-quantified polar maps. Sensitivity for detecting coronary artery disease was comparably high using quantitative and visual analysis, although specificity tended to improve using the former method (87% versus 76%, p = 0.09). Quantitative analysis was superior to the visual method for identifying left anterior descending (81% versus 68%, p < 0.05) and circumflex coronary artery (77% versus 60%, p < 0.05) stenoses and detected most patients (92%) with multivessel coronary artery disease. Multivessel involvement was correctly predicted in 65% of the patients with more than one critically stenosed vessel. |
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