✦ LIBER ✦
Cardiovascular magnetic resonance stress perfusion compared to single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) in patients with left main stem disease: a CE-MARC substudy
✍ Scribed by John P Greenwood; Ananth Kidambi; Arshad Zaman; Neil Maredia; Manish Motwani; Catherine J Dickinson; Julia Brown; Jane Nixon; Colin Everett; Stephen G Ball; Sven Plein
- Publisher
- BioMed Central
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 119 KB
- Volume
- 14
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1097-6647
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✦ Synopsis
We compared detection rates for cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) perfusion and single photon emission tomography (SPECT) in the subset of patients from the CE-MARC study with significant left main stem (LMS) disease. Detection rates for LMS disease by CMR perfusion were higher than for SPECT, and CMR identified a classical LMS pattern with higher frequency. Visual perfusion defects occurred with similar frequency in patients with ≥50% and ≥70% LMS stenosis.