Key result
Septum apex end-diastolic wall stress estimated by tissue-Doppler imaging discriminated significant coronary stenosis from healthy arteries with an area under the curve of 83%.
Why the study?
Does noninvasive estimation of myocardial end-diastolic wall stress by tissue-Doppler imaging accurately identify significant left anterior descending coronary artery stenosis?
Observational (n=90)
Does noninvasive estimation of myocardial end-diastolic wall stress by tissue-Doppler imaging accurately identify significant left anterior descending coronary artery stenosis?
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Noninvasive estimation of end-diastolic myocardial wall stress using tissue-Doppler imaging provides good discriminatory power (AUC 83%) for identifying significant LAD stenosis.
PURPOSE: To identify patients with significant coronary artery disease by the noninvasive quantification of myocardial wall stress in diastole. METHODS: We studied 60 male subjects in sinus rhythm with significant (n = 30) or moderate (n = 30) proximal left anterior descending coronary artery stenosis, and 30 healthy subjects (control group). The average end-diastolic wall stress was estimated at left ventricle anterior and interventricular septum wall segments from regional wall thickness, meridional and circumferential regional radii of curvature, and noninvasively estimated left ventricular end-diastolic pressure. RESULTS: There were significant differences in left ventricular end-diastolic pressure between patients and controls (p < 0.05). End-diastolic myocardial wall stress was significantly different between patients with significant and moderate coronary stenosis and healthy subjects in all anterior and septal wall segments (p < 0.05) except for the anterior wall at mid level. The receiver-operating characteristic curves showed that septum apex wall stress has the highest discriminatory power for predicting significant stenosis versus healthy coronary artery with 83% area under the curve. CONCLUSIONS: Estimated end-diastolic myocardial wall stress may help in evaluating regional myocardial dysfunction due to coronary artery disease.
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Moladoust et al. (2013) conducted an observational in Coronary artery disease (proximal left anterior descending coronary artery stenosis) (n=90). Noninvasive quantification of myocardial end-diastolic wall stress by tissue-Doppler imaging vs. Healthy subjects was evaluated on Discriminatory power for predicting significant stenosis versus healthy coronary artery (AUC 83%, p=<0.05). Septum apex end-diastolic wall stress estimated by tissue-Doppler imaging discriminated significant coronary stenosis from healthy arteries with an area under the curve of 83%.
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