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Feasibility to detect severe coronary artery stenoses with upright treadmill exercise magnetic resonance imaging
Pairoj Rerkpattanapipat1, Sanjay K Gandhi, Stephen N Darty
1Department of Internal Medicine (Cardiology Section), Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27157, USA. prerkpat@wfubmc.edu
The American Journal of Cardiology
|August 29, 2003
Abstract:
We performed treadmill exercise magnetic resonance imaging in 27 patients with exertional chest pain who were referred for contrast coronary angiography to determine the feasibility of this method to identify severe coronary artery stenoses. The sensitivity and specificity for detecting >70% coronary artery luminal diameter narrowings on contrast coronary angiography were 79% and 85%, respectively.