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Maret, EvaLinköpings universitet,Klinisk fysiologi,Hälsouniversitetet
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Feasibility and diagnostic power of transthoracic coronary Doppler for coronary flow velocity reserve in patients referred for myocardial perfusion imaging
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2008-03-29
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Springer Science and Business Media LLC,2008
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LIBRIS-ID:oai:DiVA.org:liu-18311
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https://doi.org/10.1186/1476-7120-6-12DOI
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BACKGROUND: Myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI), using single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) is a validated method for detecting coronary artery disease. Transthoracic Doppler echocardiography (TTDE) of flow at rest and during adenosine provocation has previously been evaluated in selected patient groups. We therefore wanted to compare the diagnostic ability of TTDE in the left anterior descending coronary artery (LAD) to that of MPI in an unselected population of patients with chest pain referred for MPI. Our hypothesis was that TTDE with high accuracy would identify healthy individuals and exclude them from the need for further studies, enabling invasive investigations to be reserved for patients with a high probability of disease. METHODS: Sixty-nine patients, 44 men and 25 women, age 61 +/- 10 years (range 35-82), with a clinical suspicion of stress induced myocardial ischemia, were investigated. TTDE was performed at rest and during adenosine stress for myocardial scintigraphy. RESULTS: We found that coronary flow velocity reserve (CFVR) determined from diastolic measurements separated normal from abnormal MPI findings with statistical significance. TTDE identified coronary artery disease, defined from MPI, as reversible ischemia and/or permanent defect, with a sensitivity of 60% and a specificity of 79%. The positive predictive value was 43% and the negative predictive value was 88%. There was an overlap between groups which could be due to abnormal endothelial function in patients with normal myocardial perfusion having either hypertension or diabetes. CONCLUSION: TTDE is an attractive non-invasive method to evaluate chest pain without the use of isotopes, but the diagnostic power is strongly dependent on the population investigated. Even in our heterogeneous clinical cardiac population, we found that CFVR>2 in the LAD excluded significant coronary artery disease detected by MPI.
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Engvall, JanLinköpings universitet,Klinisk fysiologi,Hälsouniversitetet(Swepub:liu)janen74
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Nylander, EvaLinköpings universitet,Klinisk fysiologi,Hälsouniversitetet(Swepub:liu)evany41
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Ohlsson, Jan1Department of Clinical Physiology, Ryhov County Hospital, SE-551 85 Jönköping, Sweden
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Linköpings universitetKlinisk fysiologi
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In:Cardiovascular Ultrasound: Springer Science and Business Media LLC6:121476-7120
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