Noninvasive detection of silent coronary artery disease in patients with essential hypertension, alone or associated with type 2 diabetes mellitus, using dipyridamole stress 99mtechnetium-sestamibi myocardial perfusion imaging

Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in hypertensive and diabetic patients. Early diagnosis of CAD and identification of high-risk subgroups, followed by appropriate therapy, may therefore enhance survival. To prospectively establish the prevalence of silent...

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Published in:Canadian journal of cardiology 2006-02, Vol.22 Suppl A, p.16A-21A
Main Authors: Lacourcière, Yves, Côté, Christian, Lefebvre, Jean, Dumont, Marcel
Format: Article
Language:English
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Coronary Artery Disease - complications
Coronary Artery Disease - diagnostic imaging
Coronary Circulation
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 - complications
Dipyridamole
Exercise Test
Female
Humans
Hypertension - complications
Male
Middle Aged
Radiopharmaceuticals
Technetium Tc 99m Sestamibi
Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon
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Summary:Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in hypertensive and diabetic patients. Early diagnosis of CAD and identification of high-risk subgroups, followed by appropriate therapy, may therefore enhance survival. To prospectively establish the prevalence of silent CAD in asymptomatic patients with essential hypertension (EH), and to establish to what extent type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) modifies the prevalence and severity of silent CAD in these patients. The study population consisted of 543 patients 45 years of age and older with EH (n=321) or EH with type 2 DM (n=222), without typical angina or known CAD, selected according to criteria defined by the American Diabetes Association. All patients underwent dipyridamole stress and rest 99mtechnetium sestamibi myocardial single-photon emission computed tomography imaging. The stress and rest myocardial images were divided into 20 segments and blindly scored by two experienced observers. The summed stress score and summed rest score were obtained by adding the scores of the 20 segments of the stress and rest sestamibi images, respectively. The difference between the summed stress score and the summed rest score was defined as the summed difference score, representing reversible ischemia. There was a significant difference (P=0.001) between the percentage of EH patients with (41.4%) and without (27.7%) DM, with regard to abnormal summed stress scores. Moreover, hypertensive, diabetic patients had a significantly greater incidence of moderate to severe ischemia (P=0.011). In addition, a significantly greater proportion of hypertensive patients with DM showed reversible ischemia compared with EH patients without DM (39.6% versus 24.6%; P
ISSN:1916-7075