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ArticleWorld journal of cardiology2017

Significance of inferior wall ischemia in non-dominant right coronary artery anatomy.

Ali Osama Malik, Oliver Abela, Subodh Devabhaktuni, Arhama Aftab Malik, Gayle Allenback, Chowdhury H Ahsan, Sanjay Malhotra, Jimmy Diep

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Article in World journal of cardiology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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8 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Ali Osama MalikAli Osama Malik, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Nevada School of Medicine, Las Vegas, NV 89102, United States.
Oliver AbelaAli Osama Malik, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Nevada School of Medicine, Las Vegas, NV 89102, United States.
Subodh DevabhaktuniAli Osama Malik, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Nevada School of Medicine, Las Vegas, NV 89102, United States.
Arhama Aftab MalikAli Osama Malik, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Nevada School of Medicine, Las Vegas, NV 89102, United States.
Gayle AllenbackAli Osama Malik, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Nevada School of Medicine, Las Vegas, NV 89102, United States.
Chowdhury H AhsanAli Osama Malik, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Nevada School of Medicine, Las Vegas, NV 89102, United States.
Sanjay MalhotraAli Osama Malik, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Nevada School of Medicine, Las Vegas, NV 89102, United States.
Jimmy DiepAli Osama Malik, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Nevada School of Medicine, Las Vegas, NV 89102, United States.
Aga Khan University · PKUniversity of Nevada, Las Vegas · USCreative Research Enterprises (United States) · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

aimTo investigate the relationship of inferior wall ischemia on myocardial perfusion imaging in patients with non-dominant right coronary artery anatomy.

methodsThis was a retrospective observational analysis of consecutive patients who presented to the emergency department with primary complaint of chest pain. Only patients who underwent single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) were included. Patients who showed a reversible defect on SPECT MPI and had coronary angiography during the same hospitalization was analyzed. Patients with prior history of coronary artery disease (CAD) including history of percutaneous coronary intervention and coronary artery bypass graft surgerys were excluded. True positive and false positive results were identified on the basis of hemodynamically significant CAD on coronary angiography, in the same territory as identified on SPECT MPI. Coronary artery dominance was determined on coronary angiography. Patients were divided into group 1 and group 2. Group 1 included patients with non-dominant right coronary artery (RCA) (left dominant and codominant). Group 2 included patients with dominant RCA anatomy. Demographics, baseline characteristics and positive predictive value (PPV) were analyzed for the two groups.

resultsThe mean age of the study cohort was 57.6 years. Sixty-one point seven percent of the patients were males. The prevalence of self-reported diabetes mellitus, hypertension and dyslipidemia was 36%, 71.9% and 53.9% respectively. A comparison of baseline characteristics between the two groups showed that patients with a non-dominant RCA were more likely to be men. For inferior wall ischemia on SPECT MPI, patients in study group 2 had a significantly higher PPV, 32/42 (76.1%), compared to patients in group 1, in which only 3 out of the 29 patients (10.3%) had true positive results (

conclusionThe positive predictive value of SPECT MPI for inferior wall ischemia is affected by coronary artery dominance. More studies are needed to explain this phenomenon.

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Coronary artery dominanceFalse positive resultsInferior wall ischemiaMyocardial perfusion imagingSingle photon emission commuted tomography

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PMCPMC5368676
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