Short-duration, submaximal intensity exercise stress combined with adenosine triphosphate decreases artifacts in myocard
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(2020) 20:438
RESEARCH ARTICLE
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Short-duration, submaximal intensity exercise stress combined with adenosine triphosphate decreases artifacts in myocardial perfusion single-photon emission computed tomography Yukinori Shinoda, Koichi Tachibana, Tomoko Minamisaka, Hidetada Fukuoka, Hirooki Inui, Keisuke Ueno, Soki Inoue, Kentaro Mine, Kumpei Ueda and Shiro Hoshida*
Abstract Background: Myocardial perfusion single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) imaging with stress is a useful examination for detecting coronary artery disease. Since the presence of artifacts is remaining challenges, we aimed to define the minimum intensity of low-grade exercise stress levels combined with drug stress to reduce undesired artifacts and their related factors. Methods: We divided patients with suspicious coronary artery disease into 4 groups as follows: group A, adenosine triphosphate (ATP) for 6 min; group A + 25 W, ATP + 25 W exercise for 6 min; group A + 35 W, ATP + 35 W exercise for 6 min; group A + 45 W, ATP + 45 W exercise for 6 min) and enrolled only those whose summed stress scores were < 3. Undesired artifacts were evaluated on the basis of heart-to-liver activity (H/L) ratio and heart-to-10 pixels below the heart (H/below the H) ratio. Results: The logarithmic values of H/L and H/below the H ratios were significantly higher in groups A + 35 W and A + 45 W than in group A (p < 0.05, each). In all the patients, the logarithmic values of H/L and H/below the H ratios positively correlated with the increment of rate pressure product (RPP, p = 0.002 and p = 0.005, respectively) after stress in the univariate analysis. The left ventricular end-diastolic volume (LVEDV) after stress (p = 0.002) negatively correlated with the logarithmic value of H/below the H ratio, but not H/L ratio. Although the increment of RPP was independently associated with the logarithmic values of both H/L (p = 0.001) and H/below the H ratios (p = 0.005), LVEDV was also independently associated with the logarithmic value of H/below the H ratio (p < 0.001) in multivariate regression analysis under adjusting with age and sex. Conclusion: ATP plus ≥35 W exercise stress for 6 min was useful for reducing undesired artifacts after stress in myocardial perfusion SPECT. LVEDV after stress in addition to the increment of RPP was independently associated with the H/below the H ratio, but not the H/L ratio. Keywords: Adenosine triphosphate, Artifacts, End-diastolic volume, Exercise, Myocardial perfusion imaging, Rate pressure product * Correspondence: [email protected] Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Yao Municipal Hospital, 1-3-1 Ryuge-cho, Yao, Osaka 581-0069, Japan © The Author(s). 2020 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if c
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