NUCLEAR CARDIOLOGY. Hemodynamic Indices of Myocardial Dysfunction. Correlate with Dipyridamole Thallium-201 SPECT. Bennett B. Chin, Jamil Moshin, ...
NUCLEAR CARDIOLOGY
Hemodynamic Indices of Myocardial Dysfunction Correlate with Dipyridamole Thallium-201 SPECT Bennett B. Chin, Jamil Moshin, Matthew Bouchard, Jesse A. Berlin, Luis I. Araujo and Abass Alavi Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Johns Hopkins University Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland; and Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine and Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Important differences in hemodynamics and tracer kinetics occur with dipyridamole compared to exercise scintigraphy. To better understand the clinical significance of dipyridamole SPECT 201TI scintigraphy, we examined the relationships between scintigraphy and clinical, and angiographie and hemodynamic variables in pa tients with CAD. Methods: Forty-nine subjects were divided into three study groups. Patients in Groups A (n = 11) and B (n = 20) had a low (
