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      Persistent Thallium-201 Defect: Can Clinical, Electrocardiographic and Exercise Hemodynamic Variables Predict Defect Normalization with Reinjection?

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          This study was designed to assess the contribution of clinical, electrocardiographic and exercise hemodynamic variables to the prediction of normalization on resting reinjection scintigraphy of persistent thallium-201 (<sup>201</sup>Tl) myocardial perfusion defects seen with exercise and 2- to 4-hour delayed (redistribution) imaging. To evaluate this contribution, we studied 159 consecutive patients with persistent <sup>201</sup>Tl myocardial perfusion defects on routine exercise and 2- to 4-hour-delayed scintigrams at the University of Rochester Medical Center who were classified as having moderate or greater ischemic normalization (group 1, n = 76) or minimal to no ischemic normalization (group 2, n = 83) by reinjection scintigraphy. Multiple logistic regression analysis with backward elimination was used to model the effects of clinical, electrocardiographic and exercise hemodynamic data on the odds ratio of a normalized defect. No difference was observed in the two groups with regard to gender, angina on exertion, rate-pressure product, exercise duration, resting or exertional ischemic ST changes on electrocardiogram, presence of Q waves or left ventricular hypertrophy on baseline electrocardiogram, or total number of stress thallium defects (2.8 ± 1.5 segments). No single variable or combination of variables discriminated between groups 1 and 2 by logistic regression analysis. We conclude that defect normalization seen on resting <sup>201</sup>Tl myocardial perfusion scintigraphy is prevalent in patients with persistent defects on routine exercise and delayed myocardial perfusion scintigraphy, and was not predictable from available clinical, electrocardiographic and exercise hemodynamic variables.

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          Journal
          CRD
          Cardiology
          10.1159/issn.0008-6312
          Cardiology
          S. Karger AG
          0008-6312
          1421-9751
          1996
          1996
          19 November 2008
          : 87
          : 3
          : 235-239
          Affiliations
          Departments of aMedicine (Cardiology Unit), bRadiology (Division of Nuclear Medicine) and cBiostatistics, University of Rochester, School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, N.Y., USA
          Article
          177093 Cardiology 1996;87:235–239
          10.1159/000177093
          8725320
          d0499c25-372e-4567-80c8-d04771a35d68
          © 1996 S. Karger AG, Basel

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          History
          : 09 June 1994
          : 24 June 1994
          Page count
          Pages: 5
          Categories
          Noninvasive and Diagnostic Cardiology

          General medicine,Neurology,Cardiovascular Medicine,Internal medicine,Nephrology
          Myocardial perfusion defect,Thallium-201,Scintigraphy, resting reinjection,Redistribution imaging

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