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Usefulness of technetium-99m sestamibi infarct size in predicting posthospital mortality following acute myocardial
T D Miller1, D O Hodge, J M Sutton
1Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota 55905, USA.
The American Journal of Cardiology
|June 30, 1998
Abstract:
In this multicenter study, 249 patients who underwent tomographic technetium-99m sestamibi infarct size measurement at hospital discharge were followed up for a median duration of 7 months. Infarct size was significantly associated with mortality (chi-square = 5.8, p = 0.02) and could stratify patients into lower and higher risk subsets: 1-year mortality 2% for infarct size < 14% versus 8% for infarct size > or = 14% of the left ventricle.