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NEPHROLOGY DIALYSIS TRANSPLANTATION
Volume 19, Issue 5, Pages 1161-1167Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfh037
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cardiovascular mortality; coronary artery disease; end-stage renal disease; outcome; percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty; prospective cohort study; scintigraphic uptake
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Background. Non-invasive detection of coronary artery disease (CAD) remains difficult in patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD). This study evaluated the ability of pharmacologic stress myocardial perfusion imaging to predict cardiac events in patients with ESRD. Methods. A prospective study was carried out in 49 consecutive patients with ESRD. Thallium-201 single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) using high-dose adenosine triphosphate (ATP) was performed within 1 month of the beginning of haemodialysis. The study end-point was a cardiac event or the 1-year anniversary of the SPECT study. Results. Twenty-four patients (17 diabetics, 57% and seven non-diabetics, 37%) had myocardial perfusion defects. The remaining 25 patients had normal perfusion images. Fifteen patients had non-fatal cardiac events and two patients died of a cardiac cause. All patients who had non-fatal cardiac events underwent myocardial revascularization and survived until the end of follow-up. The 1-year cardiac event-free survival rate was 34% among patients with perfusion defects and 96% among patients without perfusion defects (P < 0.001). The presence of a myocardial perfusion defect was the only independent predictor of 1-year cardiac events both in overall (HR, 49.91; 95% CI, 5.15-484.00; P < 0.001) and in diabetic patients (HR, 33.72; 95% CI, 2.96-383.5; P = 0.005). Diabetes and an increased C-reactive protein were associated with the progression of CAD. Conclusions. Normal myocardial perfusion imaging by stress thallium-201 SPECT using high-dose ATP performed within 1 month after the beginning of haemodialysis treatment is a powerful predictor of cardiac event-free survival in patients with ESRD.
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