[Comparison of thallium perfusion and electrocardiographic findings at exercise thallium-201 scintigraphy with coronary arteriographic findings].

Findings of thallium-201 perfusion (Tl) and exercise electrocardiography (ECG) at exercise thallium-201 scintigraphy was compared with coronary arteriographic findings (CAG) in 283 patients. We classified these cases into four groups by Tl and ECG; [A] Tl(+).ECG(+), [B] Tl(+).ECG(-), [C] Tl(-).ECG(+), [D] Tl(-).ECG(-). Redistribution of thallium-201 was evaluated by qualitative (visual) analysis. Three percent of group A consisted of the patients with normal coronary artery, and thirty-eight percent of group D consisted of the patients with coronary artery disease. On exercise thallium-201 scintigraphic imagings, most of patients with normal coronary artery showed redistribution of inferior (24%) and septum (45%). On exercise electrocardiographic findings, most of patients with normal coronary artery showed ST-segment depression in II, III, aVF, V5 and V6. In patients with coronary artery disease, single vessel disease in group B was larger than that in group C (62% vs. 33%, p less than 0.05), and triple vessel disease and left main truncus disease in group C was larger than that in group B (37% vs. 10%, p less than 0.05). On exercise thallium-201 scintigraphic imagings, most of false negative in patients with coronary artery disease changed to true positive by quantitative analysis. The patients with less than 90% coronary stenosis in group C was larger than that in group B (65% vs. 100%).