title: [The place of multispiral computed tomography in diagnostics of ischemic heart disease.].
abstract: Multispiral computed tomography (CT) of the heart with detection of coronary artery calcification as well as clinical examination, stress tests, single photon emission computer tomography at rest and during stress, and/or stress echocardiography were used in the study of 56 patients with and 26 without ischemic heart disease (mean age 58+/-1 and 55+/-1.5 years, respectively). In 44 patients multispiral CT was performed with intravenous contrast injection and 27 patients were subjected to coronary angiography. Specificity, sensitivity of multispiral CT for detection of hemodynamically significant (>50%) stenoses compared with angiography and for diagnosis of structural changes of the myocardium were 92, 90%, and 89, 91%, respectively. Calcium index was significantly higher in patients with than without ischemic heart disease (253+/-28 and 3+/-1.5 U, respectively) and could be a significant diagnostic criterion of ischemic heart disease.
authors.affiliation: I. M. Sechenov Moscow Medical Academy; ul Bolshaya Pirogovskaya 2/6, 119881 Moscow, Russia.
authors.forename: S K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Ternovoĭ
authors.forename: A L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Syrkin
authors.forename: P Sh
authors.initials: PSh
authors.lastname: Chomakhidze
authors.forename: V A
authors.initials: VA
authors.lastname: Sulimov
authors.forename: E V
authors.initials: EV
authors.lastname: Fominykh
authors.forename: N V
authors.initials: NV
authors.lastname: Gagarina
authors.forename: S P
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Pasha
authors.forename: S B
authors.initials: SB
authors.lastname: Shornikov
authors.forename: Z K
authors.initials: ZK
authors.lastname: Gaĭtukaeva
mesh_terms: D017023:Coronary Angiography; D003324:Coronary Artery Disease / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D017202:Myocardial Ischemia / Q000175:diagnosis; D015899:Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed