title: [Diagnostic value of myocardial thallium stress scintigraphy in the detection of coronary artery disease in patients undergoing chronic hemodialysis].
abstract: Atherosclerotic heart disease is the leading cause of death in patients with end stage renal disease, but its non invasive detection remains difficult because of a low efficacy of exercise testing. The aim of the study was to evaluate diagnostic accuracy of thallium myocardial imaging after dipyridamole combined with exercise. Forty two chronic dialysis patients (34 men, 8 women) aged 55 +/- 11 years (range: 36 to 75) without symptom of angina nor myocardial infarction were studied. In each patient, an echocardiography, a myocardial scintigraphy with dipyridamole combined with symptom-limited exercise, and coronarography were performed. A coronary heart disease was diagnosed by coronarography in 10 patients (4.5 and 1 respectively with 1, 2 and 3 vessels diseased). Echocardiography detected a left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) in 26 patients and a regional asynergia in 14 patients. A positive scintigraphy was present in 11 patients. Three false-positive and 2 false-negative on scintigraphy were noted. Sensibility, specificity, positive predictive value and negative predictive value were respectively evaluated at 80, 73, 73 and 93%. All the five patients with either false-positive or false-negative scintigraphy exhibited a LVH. CONCLUSION. In chronic dialysis patients, coronary heart disease may be detected by thallium myocardial imaging after dipyridamole combined with exercise.
authors.affiliation: Service de cardiologie, hôpital Beaujon, Clichy.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Dahan
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Legallicier
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Himbert
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Faraggi
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Aubry
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Siohan
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Viron
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Gourgon
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Mignon
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology; D004176:Dipyridamole; D005080:Exercise Test; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000503:physiopathology; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000628:therapy; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D011446:Prospective Studies; D006435:Renal Dialysis; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D013794:Thallium Radioisotopes; D015899:Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon; D014665:Vasodilator Agents
chemical_list: D013794:Thallium Radioisotopes; D014665:Vasodilator Agents; D004176:Dipyridamole
vernacular_title: Valeur diagnostique de la scintigraphie myocardique au thallium sous stimulation dans la détection de la maladie coronarienne chez l'hémodialysé chronique.