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Prognostic implications of normal exercise thallium 201 images

Journal Article · · Arch. Intern. Med.; (United States)
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A study was made of 455 patients (mean age, 51 years) in whom exercise thallium 201 scintigrams performed for suspected coronary artery disease were normal. Of those, 322 (71%) had typical or atypical angina pectoris and 68% achieved 85% or more maximal predicted heart rate. The exercise ECGs were abnormal in 68 patients (15%), normal in 229 (50%), and inconclusive in 158 (35%). Ventricular arrhythmias occurred during exercise in 194 patients (43%). After a mean follow-up period of 14 months, four patients had had cardiac events, sudden cardiac death in one and nonfatal myocardial infarctions in three. None of the four patients had abnormal exercise ECGs. Two had typical and two had atypical angina pectoris. Normal exercise thallium 201 images identify patients at a low risk for future cardiac events (0.8% per year), patients with abnormal exercise ECGs but normal thallium images have good prognoses, and exercise thallium 201 imaging is a better prognostic predictor than treadmill exercise testing alone, because of the high incidence of inconclusive exercise ECGs and the good prognosis in patients with abnormal exercise ECGs.
Research Organization:
Hahnemann Univ. and Hospital, Philadelphia, PA
OSTI ID:
5665643
Journal Information:
Arch. Intern. Med.; (United States), Journal Name: Arch. Intern. Med.; (United States) Vol. 145:2; ISSN AIMDA
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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550601* -- Medicine-- Unsealed Radionuclides in Diagnostics
62 RADIOLOGY AND NUCLEAR MEDICINE
ARTERIES
BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES
BLOOD VESSELS
BODY
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CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM
CORONARIES
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EVALUATION
EXERCISE
HEAVY NUCLEI
ISOMERIC TRANSITION ISOTOPES
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NUCLEI
ODD-EVEN NUCLEI
ORGANS
PATIENTS
RADIOISOTOPE SCANNING
RADIOISOTOPES
SCINTISCANNING
SECONDS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES
THALLIUM 201
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