Tomographic thallium-201 stress scintigraphy in the evaluation of coronary artery disease.
57 patients with chest pain, had tomographic thallium-201 stress scintigraphy (TTSS), and coronary angiography within three months of the TTSS. The exercise images were compared with delayed images obtained at 3 hours post-exercise. The sensitivity and specificity of locating individual coronary artery disease was 88% and 100% for disease of left anterior descending artery (LAD), 89% and 83% for right coronary artery disease (RCA), and 24% and 96% for left circumflex artery (LCX) disease. Other than for LCX disease, our results compare favourably with other reports. The overall accuracies are 91%, 86% and 60% for LAD, RCA and LCX disease respectively.
D000787:Angina Pectoris / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass; D003326:Coronary Circulation; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D005080:Exercise Test; D006801:Humans; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D011868:Radioisotopes; D013793:Thallium; D014055:Tomography, Emission-Computed
D011868:Radioisotopes; D013793:Thallium