Direct Comparison of Whole-Heart Navigator-Gated Magnetic Resonance Coronary Angiography and 40- and 64-Slice Multidetector Row Computed Tomography to Detect the Coronary Artery Stenosis in Patients Scheduled for Conventional Coronary Angiography
- 1 September 2008
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging
- Vol. 1 (2), 114-121
- https://doi.org/10.1161/circimaging.107.756304
Abstract
Background— Both whole-heart magnetic resonance coronary angiography (WH-MRCA) and multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) have been proposed for the noninvasive identification of the coronary stenosis. The authors sought to directly compare the diagnostic accuracy of these noninvasive imaging techniques using the invasive quantitative coronary angiography as a reference standard. Methods and Results— Seventy-seven consecutive patients (56 men, 61�14 years) prospectively underwent WH-MRCA and 40- or 64-slice MDCT before the quantitative coronary angiography. Diagnostic accuracy of WH-MRCA and MDCT for the visual identification of >50% diameter stenosis in segments of >1.5 mm size was compared using the quantitative coronary angiography as a reference. According to the quantitative coronary angiography, 49 of 992 coronary segments >1.5 mm diameter had >50% diameter stenosis. MDCT had a higher success rate (100% versus 88%, P P P =0.9) but significantly lower specificity (644/943 or 68% versus 863/943 or 92%, P P 50% diameter stenosis than did MDCT. On a per-patient basis, the sensitivity was similar (17/17 or 100% versus 16/17 or 94%, P =0.9), but specificity (43/60 or 72% versus 53/60 or 88%, P =0.024) and diagnostic accuracy (60/77 or 78%, versus 69/77 or 90%, P =0.044) of WH-MRCA for the detection of >50% diameter stenosis were significantly lower than of MDCT. Conclusions— Because of the higher success rate and higher number of interpretable segments, 40- or 64-slice MDCT performs better than WH-MRCA.Keywords
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