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Determination of Coronary Flow Reserve by Dynamic Myocardial Perfusion Scintigraphy

Determination of Coronary Flow Reserve by Dynamic Myocardial Perfusion Scintigraphy

Status
Terminated
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Observational
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT03326167
Acronym
ERCAD
Enrollment
15
Registered
2017-10-31
Start date
2017-11-15
Completion date
2019-03-13
Last updated
2023-04-07

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Conditions

Coronary Heart Disease

Brief summary

Because of its availability, non-invasiveness, and high diagnostic performance, myocardial perfusion tomoscintigraphy has become a standard tool for the detection, characterization and monitoring of coronary artery disease. Standard analysis, based on the reversibility of regional myocardial hypoperfusion between stress (physiological or pharmacological) and rest, has good sensitivity and negative predictive value in the search for myocardial ischemia. However, two major obstacles persist. First, because of the relative nature of the normalization of cardiac activity, this approach may underestimate the extent of the damage, especially when the territory with the most activity is itself pathological. Thus myocardial perfusion scintigraphy can only detect 40 to 50% of tri-truncal patients. To overcome these disadvantages, several indexes have been proposed to improve the diagnostic performance of perfusion scintigraphy in multi-truncal patients based in particular on kinetic analysis. Secondly, the review does not provide any guarantee as to the quality and reproducibility of use of the coronal reserve during stress, in particular during submaximal stress tests and pharmacological stress, the latter being easily antagonized by xanthine derivatives contained in tea and coffee in particular (abstinence of at least 12 to 24 hours being recommended). In recent years and thanks to the advent of CZT semiconductor cameras dedicated to cardiology - to perform a dynamic tomographic acquisition - a study of the coronal reserve is feasible by perfusion tomoscintigraphy in current practice. This study of the coronary reserve mainly consists of a computer post-processing of the myocardial perfusion scintigraphy data and does not therefore require any additional irradiation (the only difference with respect to the old protocols is the start of the images at the time of publication. injection of the radiotracer). However, the diagnostic benefit gained from the coronary reserve study compared to conventional stress / rest perfusion scintigraphy has not been clearly studied, particularly in the multi-truncal patients.

Interventions

OTHERMyocardial Perfusion Imaging by Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (MPI SPECT)

Evaluation of the improvement of the sensitivity, in tri-truncular patients, provided by the estimation of the coronal reserve by territory, during the realization of a myocardial perfusion tomoscintigraphy on CZT camera dedicated to cardiology (Discovery NM 530 ).

Sponsors

Hospices Civils de Lyon
Lead SponsorOTHER

Study design

Observational model
COHORT
Time perspective
PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

* Patients sent to the Nuclear Medicine Department as part of a functional evaluation by dynamic acquisition tomoscintigraphy and who will benefit from coronary angiography in the Louis Pradel Hospital hemodynamics department, depending on the results and the clinical context , outside of an emergency context. * Patients who received the information and did not object to participate in the study

Exclusion criteria

* Patient with a contraindication to pharmacological stress by dipyridamole or regadenoson (acute coronary syndrome, acute pulmonary embolism, hypertension) severe pulmonary artery disease, acute aortic dissection, symptomatic aortic stenosis, hemodynamic instability, acute myocarditis, pericarditis or endocarditis, severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, uncompacted type III atrioventricular block, systolic pressure \<90 mmHg, Recent ischemic stroke, hypersensitivity or allergy to active ingredients or excipients) * Patients under 18 years of age * Patients with atrial fibrillation complete arrhythmia (ACFA) * Patients with a history of coronary bypass grafting. * Patients whose clinical condition requires rapid management not allowing to wait for the completion of the exams * Pregnancy and breast feeding * Deprivation of civil rights (guardianship, guardianship, safeguard of justice)

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Presence of significant stenosis in each of the three coronary areastwo weeks after MPI SPECTThe gold standard will be provided by coronarography with Fractional Flow Reserve measurement during the angiographic procedure if necessary. Coronary stenosis with Fractional Flow Reserve \<0.8 will be retained as positive

Countries

France

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026