Prognostic value of intravenous dipyridamole thallium imaging in patients with diabetes mellitus considered for renal transplantation

Association Between Silent Coronary Artery Disease, Diabetes, and Autonomic Neuropathy: Fact or Fallacy?

“…The lack of specificity is also a problem in thallium imaging. In two studies, 3 8 -5 2 % of patients with abnormal scans had no significant coronary artery disease (16,21). Therefore, it would be ideal if the positive findings of noninvasive tests could be ascertained with coronary arteriography.…”

Preoperative strategies to assess cardiac risk before noncardiac surgery

“…2). [23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34] Thc pooled data for dipyridamole myocardial perfusion imaging reveal a positive and negative predictive value of 36 f: 1 1 % and 07 i 2%, respectively. The positive predictive value of a severe defect, defined as a multisegmental, reversible defect or a combination of fixed and reversible defect for cardiac events was 45 * 5% and is associated with an increased incidence of postoperative death and myocardial infarction.…”

The Evaluation of the Renal Transplant Candidates: Clinical Practice Guidelines

“…Several other studies have examined how well exercise and/ or dipyridamole thallium scintigraphy predicted cardiac events in ESRD patients (673,(689)(690)(691)(692)(693)(694)(695)(696)(697). In studies where the incidence of IHD events was 9-20%, the positive and negative predictive values of thallium scintigraphy were, respectively: 7 and 84% (680) (689), and 31 and 88% (691).…”