title: [Quantitative evaluation of regional myocardial blood flow by digital subtraction angiography: correlations with exercise electrocardiography and Tl-201 myocardial scintigraphy].
abstract: We previously reported that the contrast disappearance half-life (T1/2) derived by the computerized washout analysis of digital subtraction coronary arteriograms provides a useful index for quantitatively evaluating regional myocardial blood flow. In the present study, we further evaluated the clinical usefulness of T1/2, comparing it with exercise electrocardiography and exercise thallium-201 myocardial scintigraphy. The study subjects consisted of 25 patients with angina pectoris and 14 patients with normal coronary arteries. Following the manual injection of contrast media into the left anterior descending coronary artery (LAD), a time-density curve was generated in the sectors of the myocardium which were perfused by the LAD and the T1/2 was calculated. T1/2 values correlated closely with double product (r = -0.73). They were significantly greater in patients with exercise-induced ST depression (8.3 +/- 1.0 vs 5.8 +/- 0.7, p less than 0.005). In addition, there was a good correlation between T1/2 values and washout ratio as determined by exercise thallium-201 myocardial scintigraphy, with r = -0.83. Although T1/2 values were within the normal range (mean +/- 2SD of control subjects) in all patients with LAD stenosis of 50 percent or less, these values were abnormally increased, exceeding the normal range, in 11 of the 12 patients with stenosis of 90 percent or more. Compared with exercise electrocardiography, T1/2 values were abnormally prolonged in 11 of the 13 patients with exercise-induced ST depression. Compared with exercise thallium-201 myocardial scintigraphy, T1/2 values were abnormally prolonged in seven of the nine patients with transient perfusion defects.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
authors.affiliation: Third Department of Internal Medicine, Kurume University, School of Medicine.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ikeda
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Shibao
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Yamaguchi
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yoh
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Shimamatsu
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hiyamuta
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Itaya
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ohkita
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sugi
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Koga
mesh_terms: D000787:Angina Pectoris / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D003326:Coronary Circulation; D004562:Electrocardiography; D005260:Female; D006321:Heart / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D005082:Physical Exertion; D011856:Radiographic Image Enhancement; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D013382:Subtraction Technique; D013794:Thallium Radioisotopes
chemical_list: D013794:Thallium Radioisotopes