Prognostic evaluation of patients after myocardial infarction: Incremental value of sestamibi single-photon emission computed tomography and echocardiography

Abstract

In our long-term follow-up, MIBI SPECT and echocardiography appeared to be significant and independent prognostic tools in the risk stratification of patients with stable, uncomplicated infarcts, furnishing complementary information. The reversibility of MIBI defects appeared the best indicator for a bad prognosis.

Clinical relevance of left ventricular volume assessment by gated myocardial SPET in patients with coronary artery disease

“…4) of three patients with a reduced LVEF of 29% due to ischaemic heart disease. Although LVEF is equal in these three pa- Many studies have demonstrated the important prognostic value of dilated heart chambers for predicting both cardiac events and cardiac death [51,52,53,54,55,56,57,58,59,60,61,62,63,64,65,66,67].…”

“…Although many studies have investigated the prognostic value of different functional echocardiographic measurements in patients with CAD [53, 54, 55, 56, 58, 59,60,63,64], and other echocardiographic studies have investigated the evolution of LV volumes in CAD (with or without medical treatment) [68,69,70], very few have investigated the prognostic significance of augmented LVESV and LVEDV. Romano et al [65] investigated LV volumes and LVEF by 2D echocardiography in 192 patients (143 males) after a first non-Q wave infarction and followed them up for short-term outcome (events during the in-hospital period).…”