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- Title
Effectiveness of Myocardial Contrast Echocardiography Quantitative Analysis during Adenosine Stress versus Visual Analysis before Percutaneous Therapy in Acute Coronary Pain: A Coronary Artery TIMI Grading Comparing Study.
- Authors
Lixia Yang; Yuming Mu; Augusto Quaglia, Luiz; Qi Tang; Lina Guan; Chunmei Wang; Ming Chi Shih
- Abstract
The study aim was to compare two different stress echocardiography interpretation techniques based on the correlation with thrombosis in myocardial infarction (TIMI ) flow grading from acute coronary syndrome (ACS) patients. Forty-one patients with suspected ACS were studied before diagnostic coronary angiography with myocardial contrast echocardiography (MCE) at rest and at stress. The correlation of visual interpretation of MCE and TIMI flow grade was significant. The quantitative analysis (myocardial perfusion parameters: A, β, and A × β) and TIMI flow grade were significant. MCE visual interpretation and TIMI flow grade had a high degree of agreement, on diagnosing myocardial perfusion abnormality. If one considers TIMI flow grade <3 as abnormal, MCE visual interpretation at rest had 73.1% accuracy with 58.2% sensitivity and 84.2% specificity and at stress had 80.4% accuracy with 76.6% sensitivity and 83.3% specificity. TheMCE quantitative analysis has better accuracy with 100% of agreement with different level of TIMI flow grading. MCE quantitative analysis at stress has showed a direct correlation with TIMI flow grade, more significant than the visual interpretation technique. Further studies could measure the clinical relevance of this more objective approach to managing acute coronary syndrome patient before percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).
- Subjects
TREATMENT of acute coronary syndrome; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ANALYSIS of variance; MYOCARDIAL revascularization; RESEARCH evaluation; RESEARCH funding; STATISTICS; TRANSLUMINAL angioplasty; DATA analysis; INTER-observer reliability; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; CORONARY angiography
- Publication
Journal of Biomedicine & Biotechnology, 2012, Vol 2012, p1
- ISSN
1110-7243
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.1155/2012/806731