Why the study?
Do exercise thallium-201 perfusion imaging and stress radionuclide angiography improve the sensitivity to detect coronary heart disease compared to exercise electrocardiogram in patients with chest pain?
Do exercise thallium-201 perfusion imaging and stress radionuclide angiography improve the sensitivity to detect coronary heart disease compared to exercise electrocardiogram in patients with chest pain?
Exercise thallium-201 imaging and stress radionuclide angiography are significantly more sensitive than exercise ECG for detecting coronary heart disease, particularly in patients with single-vessel disease.
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May support higher CHD detection sensitivity than exercise ECG; leaves open prospective validation before practice change.
Bodenheimer et al. (1979) studied this question.