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Significance of increased lung thallium-201 activity on serial cardiac images after dipyridamole treatment in coronary heart disease.
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The American journal of cardiology [Am J Cardiol] 1984 Feb 01; Vol. 53 (4), pp. 470-5. - Publication Year :
- 1984
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Abstract
- Increased lung thallium-201 (Tl-201) activity occurs in patients with severe coronary artery disease (CAD) on initial postexercise images. To determine the significance of assessing lung Tl-201 on serial imaging after dipyridamole therapy, initial and delayed (2 to 3 hours) Tl-201 imaging was performed in 40 patients with CAD and 26 normal control subjects. Lung Tl-201 activity was quantitated as a percentage of maximal myocardial activity for each imaging time (lung Tl-201 index). The mean initial lung Tl-201 activity was 42 +/- 2% (+/- standard error of the mean) in 26 control subjects, 56 +/- 2% in 25 patients with 2- or 3-vessel CAD (p less than 0.001) and 53 +/- 2% in 15 patients with 1-vessel CAD (p less than 0.005 compared with control subjects) (difference not significant between 1-vessel and multivessel CAD). Dipyridamole lung Tl-201 activity decreased relative to the myocardium from initial to delayed images (p less than 0.001) in patients with CAD but not in control subjects. When a dipyridamole lung Tl-201 index of 58% (mean +/- 2 standard deviations for control subjects) was chosen as the upper limit of normal, 14 of 40 of the CAD patients (35%) had abnormal values and all control patients had values within normal limits. These 14 patients with CAD and abnormal initial lung Tl-201 indexes had rest ejection fractions that were not significantly different from those in patients with CAD, and normal initial dipyridamole lung Tl-201 index (58 +/- 4% and 63 +/- 2%, respectively).(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0002-9149
- Volume :
- 53
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- The American journal of cardiology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 6695775
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0002-9149(84)90014-6