title: Correlation of myocardial fractional flow reserve with thallium-201 SPECT imaging in intermediate-severity coronary artery lesions.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The purpose of this study was to compare the measurements of fractional flow reserve of the myocardium (FFRmyo) with results of quantitative coronary angiography (QCA) and stress single-photon emission computed tomography thallium-201 (SPECT 201Tl) imaging in patients with intermediate-severity coronary artery disease (ISCAD).
  
  
  METHODS
  We prospectively evaluated 40 lesions of QCA-determined ISCAD in 30 patients (age, 53.3 +/- 10.2 years; 67% male) using a 0. 014 inch pressure wire during elective coronary angiography and compared the results with those of SPECT 201Tl performed within a week of angiography.
  
  
  RESULTS
  There was a moderate negative correlation between percent diameter stenosis (%DS) and FFRmyo (53.1 +/- 13.4% and 0.75 +/- 0.09, respectively; r = -0.40; p = 0.01). Twenty-two out of 40 vascular territories (55%) were found to have perfusion defects (Group 1) and 18 territories (45%) were found to be normal (Group 2). While QCA-determined stenosis severity was not different between Group 1 and Group 2 (56 +/- 12% vs. 50 +/- 16%, respectively; p = 0.3), FFRmyo was found to be significantly different between the two groups (0.68 +/- 0.05 vs. 0.83 +/- 0.05, respectively; p = 0.001). When %DS and FFRmyo results were dichotomized as abnormal by 50% and < 0.75, respectively, and SPECT 201Tl was taken as the gold standard, sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value and negative predictive value of %DS and FFRmyo were 0.55 vs. 0.91, 0.56 vs. 1.0, 0.60 vs. 1.0 and 0.50 vs. 0. 90, respectively.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  While FFRmyo seems to accurately predict the presence of ischemia on SPECT 201Tl in patients with ISCAD, QCA does not reliably assess the physiologic impact of the same lesions.
authors.affiliation: Yeni Duygu Sok, IETT Sitesi, C Blok D:4, Acibadem, Istanbul, Turkey.
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Caymaz
authors.forename: A S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Fak
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Tezcan
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Inanir S
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Toprak
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Tokay
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Turoglu
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Oktay
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001783:Blood Flow Velocity; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D003326:Coronary Circulation / Q000502:physiology*; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D013794:Thallium Radioisotopes; D015899:Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon
chemical_list: D013794:Thallium Radioisotopes