PMID: 733592Oct 1, 1978Paper

Evaluation by means of ECG-gated cardiac blood pool scintigraphy of global and regional left ventricular function at rest and during exercise in patients with coronary artery disease (author's transl)

Nuklearmedizin. Nuclear Medicine
E SauerH Blömer

Abstract

ECG-gated cardiac blood pool scintigraphy permits a non-invasive determination of the end-diastolic and end-systolic ventricular volumes and of the ejection fraction as well as a qualitative description of regional ventricular wall motion at rest and during excercise. In 6 healthy persons a significant increase of the ejection fraction from 66 +/- 7% at rest to 78 +/- 3% during exercise (p less than 0.01) was observed. In contrast, the ejection fraction decreased in 15 out of 18 patients with coronary artery disease, with a significant (p less than 0.01) difference between patients with and without angina pectoris. Thus, the ejection fraction fell in 12 patients without angina during excercise from 60 +/- 11% to 52 +/- 11% (p less than 0.05) whereas in 6 patients with angina a decrease from 61 +/- 7% to 30 +/- 8% (p less than 0.01) was observed. This non-invasive technique makes it possible to demonstrate in a simple and safe manner changes of cardiac function during excercise in patients with coronary artery disease.

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