PMID: 11337541May 5, 2001Paper

Relationship between the location of the most severe myocardial perfusion defects, the most severe coronary artery stenosis, and the site of subsequent myocardial infarction

Journal of Nuclear Medicine : Official Publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine
J Candell-RieraJ Soler-Soler

Abstract

This study evaluated the relationship between the location of the most severe myocardial perfusion defects, the most severe coronary artery stenosis, and the site of subsequent acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Of 3,180 patients who were admitted with a diagnosis of AMI, we identified 44 patients who had undergone previous myocardial perfusion SPECT. Thirty-one of them also had previous coronary angiography. The relationship between the location of the myocardial perfusion defects, the coronary artery stenosis, and the site of subsequent AMI was studied in these patients. The concordance between the location of the most severe reversible defects detected by SPECT and the site of subsequent AMI was 71% (kappa = 0.499). The concordance between the most severe stenosis detected by coronary angiography and the site of subsequent AMI was 64% (kappa = 0.451). However, kappa values for SPECT and coronary angiography were good when the interval between these investigations and subsequent AMI was <3 mo (0.724 and 0.661, respectively), for moderate to severe perfusion defects (0.719), and for 90%-99% coronary stenosis (0.626). The culprit lesion is not always the one that is manifested by the most severe reversible perfusion defect or t...Continue Reading

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