ArticleJRSM cardiovascular disease
Sex differences in the agreement between left ventricular ejection fraction measured by myocardial perfusion scintigraphy and by echocardiography.
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backgroundLeft ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) is generally measured by echocardiography but is increasingly available with myocardial perfusion scintigraphy. With myocardial perfusion scintigraphy, the threshold of LVEF below which there is a risk for myocardial infarct or sudden cardiac death is higher for women (51%) than for men (43%). We tested the hypothesis that such a sex difference may also occur with echocardiography and myocardial perfusion scintigraphy.
methodsFour hundred and four men, mean age = 67.7 ± SD = 12.3 yr; 339 women, 67.7 ± 11.7 yr had separate myocardial perfusion scintigraphy and echocardiography examinations within six months. A subset of 327 of these patients (181 men, 68.8 ± 12.1 yr; 146 women, 66.4 ± 12.1 yr) had examinations within one month and were additionally analysed as this sub-group. Myocardial perfusion scintigraphy and echocardiography were used to measure LVEF at rest and their agreement (neither considered as a reference method) was assessed by Bland-Altman plots: LVEF difference (myocardial perfusion scintigraphy minus echocardiography ) against average LVEF (
resultsOf patients who had myocardial perfusion scintigraphy and echocardiography performed within six months, mean LVEF difference = +1.1% (95% limits of agreement: -19.3 to +21.6) in men but +10.9% (-10.7 to +32.5) in women. LVEF difference diverged from zero marginally in men (mean difference = +1.1, 95%CI = +0.1 to +2.1,
conclusionsCaution should be taken when interpreting LVEF measured by different techniques due to their wide limits of agreement and systematic bias, more markedly in women.
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