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Diagnostic value of thallium-201 myocardial perfusion IQ-SPECT without and with computed tomography-based attenuation correction to predict clinically significant and insignificant fractional flow reserve: A single-center prospective study.

Haruki Tanaka, Teruyuki Takahashi, Norihiko Ohashi, Koichi Tanaka, Takenori Okada, Yasuki Kihara

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Article in Medicine, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Haruki TanakaDepartment of Cardiology, Miyoshi Central Hospital, Miyoshi City, Hiroshima, Japan Department of Radiology Department of Cardiology, Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital and Atomic-bomb Survivors Hospital Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Hiroshima University Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima City, Japan.
Teruyuki Takahashi
Norihiko Ohashi
Koichi Tanaka
Takenori Okada
Yasuki Kihara
Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital & Atomic-bomb Survivors Hospital · JP

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The aim of this study was to clarify the predictive value of fractional flow reserve (FFR) determined by myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) using thallium (Tl)-201 IQ-SPECT without and with computed tomography-based attenuation correction (CT-AC) for patients with stable coronary artery disease (CAD).We assessed 212 angiographically identified diseased vessels using adenosine-stress Tl-201 MPI-IQ-SPECT/CT in 84 consecutive, prospectively identified patients with stable CAD. We compared the FFR in 136 of the 212 diseased vessels using visual semiquantitative interpretations of corresponding territories on MPI-IQ-SPECT images without and with CT-AC.FFR inversely correlated most accurately with regional summed difference scores (rSDS) in images without and with CT-AC (r = -0.584 and r = -0.568, respectively, both P < .001). Receiver-operating characteristics analyses using rSDS revealed an optimal FFR cut-off of <0.80 without and with CT-AC. Although the diagnostic accuracy of FFR <0.80 did not significantly differ, FFR ≥0.82 was significantly more accurate with, than without CT-AC. Regions with rSDS ≥2 without or with CT-AC predicted FFR <0.80, and those with rSDS ≤1 without and with CT-AC predicted FFR ≥0.81, with 73% and 83% sensitivity, 84% and 67% specificity, and 79% and 75% accuracy, respectively.Although limited by the sample size and the single-center design, these findings showed that the IQ-SPECT system can predict FFR at an optimal cut-off of <0.80, and we propose a novel application of CT-AC to MPI-IQ-SPECT for predicting clinically significant and insignificant FFR even in nonobese patients.

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Thallium RadioisotopesAcademic Medical CentersCohort StudiesCoronary AngiographyCoronary DiseaseFemaleFractional Flow Reserve, MyocardialHumansJapanLogistic ModelsMaleMyocardial Perfusion ImagingPredictive Value of TestsProspective StudiesROC CurveSeverity of Illness IndexThallium-201Thallium Radioisotopes

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PMID29390486
PMCPMC5758188
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