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Assessment of peripheral artery tonometry in the detection of treadmill exercise-induced myocardial ischemia
Authors:Chouraqui Pierre  Schnall Robert P  Dvir Itsik  Rozanski Alan  Qureshi Ehtasham  Arditti Alexander  Saef Jerold  Feigin Paul D  Sheffy Jacob
Affiliation:Nuclear Cardiology Unit, The Heart Institute, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel. chouraq@post.tau.ac.il
Abstract:OBJECTIVES: We sought to assess the added diagnostic value of peripheral artery tonometric (PAT) measurements, based on finger pulsatile arterial volume changes, to standard 12-lead stress electrocardiography (ECG), for detecting exercise-induced myocardial ischemia, using single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) as the standard of comparison in a double-blinded, multicenter protocol. METHODS: An automated algorithm for identifying myocardial ischemia from PAT was derived from 345 training cases. The PAT outcome was combined with the ECG result (ischemic, nonischemic, or equivocal), giving a PAT-enhanced value. A threshold of normality was determined to optimize agreement with the SPECT results in the training sample. The PAT-enhanced analysis was then validated in 616 subjects, only two of whom had technically unacceptable PAT studies. RESULTS: In the validation cohort, receiver operating characteristic curve analysis of the PAT-enhanced diagnosis yielded an area under the curve of 0.72, a sensitivity of 63.5%, compared with 44.7% for ECG alone (p < 0.0001), and a specificity of 67.8% common to both ECG and PAT-enhanced diagnoses. Similar results were found in the training sample. Although over 10% of validation subjects had equivocal ECG results, with the aid of PAT, it was possible to provide diagnostic information for all but one subject. CONCLUSIONS: Peripheral artery tonometry may be useful for improving the diagnosis of exercise-induced myocardial ischemia by both enhancing the sensitivity without impairing the specificity and increasing the percentage of definitive test results.
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