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  • Title: Comparison of thallium-201 single-photon emission computed tomographic scintigraphy with intravenous dipyridamole and arm exercise.
    Author: Grover-McKay M, Milne N, Atwood JE, Lyons KP.
    Journal: Am Heart J; 1994 Jun; 127(6):1516-20. PubMed ID: 8197977.
    Abstract:
    In patients who cannot perform treadmill exercise, both intravenous dipyridamole and arm exercise have been used with thallium-201 scintigraphy to detect significant coronary artery disease. However, no study has directly evaluated the results of intravenous dipyridamole and arm exercise thallium scintigraphy as compared with coronary angiography. It was the purpose of this study to compare intravenous dipyridamole and arm exercise thallium-201 single-photon emission computed tomographic (SPECT) scintigraphy for detection of significant coronary artery disease in patients who could not perform treadmill exercise. Data are presented for both intravenous dipyridamole and arm exercise thallium-201 SPECT scintigraphy in 18 men who could not perform treadmill exercise, and results are compared with those of coronary angiography. Ten of 11 (91%) patients with significant coronary artery disease were identified correctly, and the results of intravenous dipyridamole and arm exercise thallium scintigraphy were comparable. In patients without significant coronary artery disease, intravenous dipyridamole thallium images were interpreted correctly. However, initial arm exercise thallium images demonstrated a fixed inferior wall defect in two of seven patients without significant coronary artery disease. Images in one of these patients could not be retrieved from tape for further analysis. Review of the images in the other patient demonstrated relatively high background radioactivity, and when the images were displayed without background subtraction, the inferior wall was correctly interpreted as normal. We conclude that results of intravenous dipyridamole and arm exercise thallium-201 SPECT scintigraphy are comparable.
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