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Does thallium scintigraphy accurately detect coronary artery disease in patients with angina at rest compared to exercise electrocardiography?
Does thallium scintigraphy accurately detect coronary artery disease in patients with angina at rest compared to exercise electrocardiography?
Thallium scintigraphy provides superior sensitivity compared to exercise ECG for detecting coronary artery disease in patients with angina at rest, especially when the ECG is inconclusive.
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May support thallium scintigraphy when exercise ECG is inconclusive; hypothesis-generating and should not yet change diagnostic pathways.
Sixty six patients with angina at rest were investigated by exercise electrocardiography, thallium scintigraphy, and coronary arteriography. A positive exercise electrocardiogram was highly predictive (93%) but poorly sensitive (52%) of coronary artery disease (greater than or equal to 50% stenosis). Thallium scintigraphy was as predictive of the presence of coronary artery disease (91%) but was also highly sensitive (91%). The diagnostic contribution of the thallium scan was greatest in those patients with an inconclusive exercise electrocardiogram without Q waves.
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