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      Comparison of Rest/Exercise ECG, Thallium-201 Scans and Radionuclide Angiography in Patients with Suspected Coronary Artery Disease

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          The results of rest and exercise ECG, <sup>201</sup>Tl myocardial perfusion imaging and equilibrium radionuclide angiography were analyzed in 71 consecutive patients reffered for diagnosis or evaluation of coronary artery disease (CAD). In 45 patients the diagnosis was established either by catheterization or typical history. In this group the overall sensitivity for rest/exercise ECG was 66%, for <sup>201</sup>Tl scans 74%, for both combined 79% and for the ejection fraction response to exercise determined by radionuclide angiography 97%. If only the exercise response was considered, the corresponding sensitivity values were 58% (ECG), 50% (<sup>201</sup>Tl scans), 71% (ECG + <sup>201</sup>Tl) and 97% (radionuclide angiography). The specificity for coronary artery disease was determined to be 71% for ECG, 86% for <sup>201</sup>Tl scans and 42% for radionuclide angiography. All patients with false-positive results by radionuclide angiography had cardiomyopathies, thus this test has a high specificity for left ventricular dysfunction rather than for CAD alone. Criteria developed from the analysis of the test results in the 45 patients with definite diagnoses were then applied to the evaluation of 26 additional patients with atypical chest pain. A diagnosis could be made in all but 5 of them and radionuclide angiography was again the single most reliable test. Based on this study a new approach for the noninvasive evaluation of patients with suspected coronary artery disease is proposed.

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          Journal
          CRD
          Cardiology
          10.1159/issn.0008-6312
          Cardiology
          S. Karger AG
          0008-6312
          1421-9751
          1980
          1980
          31 October 2008
          : 66
          : 1
          : 43-55
          Affiliations
          Division of Nuclear Medicine, Department of Radiology, and Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of California Medical Center, San Diego, Calif.
          Article
          170849 Cardiology 1980;66:43–55
          10.1159/000170849
          7388853
          eb716d3a-cabc-438d-b86a-94675489f956
          © 1980 S. Karger AG, Basel

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          Pages: 13
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          General medicine,Neurology,Cardiovascular Medicine,Internal medicine,Nephrology
          Exercise tests,Thallium,LV imaging

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