Feasibility to detect severe coronary artery stenoses with upright treadmill exercise magnetic resonance imaging.

作者信息

Rerkpattanapipat Pairoj, Gandhi Sanjay K, Darty Stephen N, Williams R Taylor, Davis April D, Mazur Wojciech, Clark Hollins P, Little William C, Link Kerry M, Hamilton Craig A, Hundley W Gregory

机构信息

Department of Internal Medicine (Cardiology Section), Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27157, USA.

出版信息

Am J Cardiol. 2003 Sep 1;92(5):603-6. doi: 10.1016/s0002-9149(03)00734-3.

We performed treadmill exercise magnetic resonance imaging in 27 patients with exertional chest pain who were referred for contrast coronary angiography to determine the feasibility of this method to identify severe coronary artery stenoses. The sensitivity and specificity for detecting >70% coronary artery luminal diameter narrowings on contrast coronary angiography were 79% and 85%, respectively.