title: [The usefulness of thallium-201 scintigraphy in the diagnosis of coronary disease].
abstract: Stress thallium scintigraphy was performed in 60 patients with chest pain of uncertain origin. Myocardial ischemia was identified in 91% of the 47 patients who had angiographically significant coronary artery stenoses. Sensitivity of thallium scintigraphy was highest in patients with stenosis in the left descending coronary artery (LAD); 91% of the patients had abnormal thallium as compared with 67% of the patients with normal LAD but significant stenoses in the circumflex artery and/or the right coronary artery. Perfusion defects in the circumflex in only 50% of the patients with multiple vessel disease. We conclude that stress thallium scintigraphy is a useful diagnostic procedure in patients with chest pain of uncertain origin and identifies the patients to be selected for coronary artery angiography.
authors.affiliation: Klinisk-fysiologisk avdeling, Haukeland sykehus, Bergen.
authors.forename: K A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Johannessen
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Andersen
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Følling
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Vik-Mo
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D013794:Thallium Radioisotopes
chemical_list: D013794:Thallium Radioisotopes