Comparison of the long-term survival benefits associated with revascularization or medical therapy in patients with known coronary artery disease undergoing transesophageal atrial pacing stress echocardiography

The American Journal of Cardiology
G GoliaCorrado Vassanelli

Abstract

Although the utility of stress echocardiography for the diagnosis and prognostic evaluation of patients with suspected coronary artery disease (CAD) has been widely reported, few studies have evaluated the role of revascularization in relation to the presence of inducible ischemia during stress in patients with known CAD. The study population consisted of 295 consecutive patients who underwent transesophageal atrial pacing stress echocardiography (TAPSE) in the echocardiographic laboratory of our division between January 1988 and September 1997, in whom coronary angiography was performed within 10 days of the test. Patients were then assigned to revascularization or medical treatment according to the treatment given within 60 days of TAPSE. Cardiac-related deaths were higher in medically treated (19 of 135) than in revascularized (8 of 160) patients (p = 0.03). Parameters measured with TAPSE, i.e., positivity of the test, change in wall motion score index (DeltaWMSI and peak WMSI) were significantly related to mortality in medically treated patients but not in revascularized patients. At multivariate analysis, DeltaWMSI remained the most powerful predictor of cardiac death in medically treated patients (p = 0.005). Mortality pr...Continue Reading

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Feb 13, 2007·The American Journal of Cardiology·Maurizio AnselmiCorrado Vassanelli
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