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Trial reportJournal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology2014

Relationship between myocardial perfusion abnormalities and contractile impairment in anginal patients.

Alessia Gimelli, Riccardo Liga, Assuero Giorgetti, Mirta Casagranda, Paolo Marzullo

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Trial report in Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. CZT camera: moving beyond classical CAD detection?European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging · 2015
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5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Alessia GimelliFondazione Toscana Gabriele Monasterio, Via Moruzzi, 1, 56124, Pisa, Italy, gimelli@ftgm.it.
Riccardo Liga
Assuero Giorgetti
Mirta Casagranda
Paolo Marzullo
Fondazione Toscana Gabriele Monasterio · ITAzienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Pisana · IT

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundA relationship between left ventricular (LV) contractile impairment and myocardial perfusion abnormalities has been suggested. METHODS AND

resultsThree-hundred and thirty-seven patients underwent myocardial perfusion imaging at CZT and coronary angiography. On scintigraphic images, the summed difference score (SDS) and LV-ejection fraction (EF) were computed. Patients were categorized as follows: Group-1 (LV-EF < 40%; 71 patients), Group-2 (LV-EF ≥ 40% and < 55%; 77 patients), and Group-3 (LV-EF ≥ 55%; 189 patients). Significant coronary artery disease (CAD; ≥50% stenosis) was recognized in 159/337 (47%) patients. Interestingly, while in Group-3 subjects an inverse relationship between SDS values and post-stress LV-EF was evident (P < .001), Group-1 patients presented a significant association between an increased SDS and more elevated post-stress LV-EF values (P = .009). Similarly, despite in the overall population an increasing severity of CAD was associated with higher SDS values (P < .001), this relationship disappeared in Group-1 patients (P = .298). At multiple regression analysis, after correction for CAD, LV dysfunction was negatively associated with an elevated SDS (P = .018). Conversely in patients with normal LV function and no history of myocardial infarction, CAD extent, and functional measures of stress-induced myocardial ischemia were strictly correlated.

conclusionsIndependently from CAD, a significantly impaired LV function associates with a lower prevalence of reversible ischemia.

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AgedAngina, UnstableCardiac-Gated Single-Photon Emission Computer-Assisted TomographyCoronary Artery DiseaseExercise TestFemaleHumansMaleMyocardial Perfusion ImagingRadiographyReproducibility of ResultsSensitivity and SpecificityVentricular Dysfunction, Left

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