Abstract
From a consecutive series of patients who underwent rest and exercise radionuclide angiography over several years, we retrospectively identified 34 patients with left main coronary artery disease and 103 patients with three‐vessel coronary artery disease who did not have significant left main disease. The results of gated equilibrium radionuclide angiography were compared in these 2 groups. Multiple exercise hemodynamic, exercise electrocardiographic, and exercise radionuclide angiographic parameters were considered in an attempt to separate the 2 groups. The only parameter that was significantly different between the 2 groups was exercise heart rate. However, no value of the exercise heart rate could meaningfully separate the 2 groups. Despite their known difference in prognosis, patients with left main and three‐vessel disease had very similar exercise performance and could not be distinguished from one another by exercise electrocar‐diography or exercise radionuclide angiography. The inability to distinguish these two groups is a clear limitation of noninvasive exercise modalities.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 14-20 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Journal | Catheterization and cardiovascular diagnosis |
Volume | 22 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jan 1991 |
Keywords
- coronary artery disease
- exercise testing
- radionuclide angiography
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine