Assessment of Advanced Coronary Artery Disease: Advantages of Quantitative Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Perfusion Analysis

Overview

Journal J Am Coll Cardiol

Specialty Cardiology & Vascular Diseases

Date 2010 Aug 7

PMID 20688211

Citations 95

Authors

Amit R Patel

Patrick F Antkowiak

Kiran R Nandalur

Amy M West

Michael Salerno

Vishal Arora

John Christopher

Frederick H Epstein

Christopher M Kramer

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Abstract

Objectives: The purpose of this paper was to compare quantitative cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) first-pass contrast-enhanced perfusion imaging to qualitative interpretation for determining the presence and severity of coronary artery disease (CAD).

Background: Adenosine CMR can detect CAD by measuring perfusion reserve (PR) or by qualitative interpretation (QI).

Methods: Forty-one patients with an abnormal nuclear stress scheduled for X-ray angiography underwent dual-bolus adenosine CMR. Segmental myocardial perfusion analyzed using both QI and PR by Fermi function deconvolution was compared to quantitative coronary angiography.

Results: In the 30 patients with complete quantitative data, PR (mean +/- SD) decreased stepwise as coronary artery stenosis (CAS) severity increased: 2.42 +/- 0.94 for <50%, 2.14 +/- 0.87 for 50% to 70%, and 1.85 +/- 0.77 for >70% (p < 0.001). The PR and QI had similar diagnostic accuracies for detection of CAS >50% (83% vs. 80%), and CAS >70% (77% vs. 67%). Agreement between observers was higher for quantitative analysis than for qualitative analysis. Using PR, patients with triple-vessel CAD had a higher burden of detectable ischemia than patients with single-vessel CAD (60% vs. 25%; p = 0.02), whereas no difference was detected by QI (31% vs. 21%; p = 0.26). In segments with myocardial scar (n = 64), PR was 3.10 +/- 1.34 for patients with CAS <50% (n = 18) and 1.91 +/- 0.96 for CAS >50% (p < 0.0001).

Conclusions: Quantitative PR by CMR differentiates moderate from severe stenoses in patients with known or suspected CAD. The PR analysis differentiates triple- from single-vessel CAD, whereas QI does not, and determines the severity of CAS subtending myocardial scar. This has important implications for assessment of prognosis and therapeutic decision making.

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