Electrocardiographic Significance of Reversible Thallium-201 Abnormalities in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

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  • William H. Schenke
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Background. Exercise-induced abnormalities during thallium-201 scintigraphy that normalize at rest frequently occur in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. However, it is not known whether these abnormalities are indicative of myocardial ischemia. Methods and Results. Fifty patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy underwent exercise 20UT1 scintigraphy and, during the same week, measurement of myocardial lactate metabolism and hemodynamics during pacing stress. Thirty-seven patients (74%) had one or more 201TI abnormalities that completely normalized after 3 hours of rest; 26 had regional myocardial 201T1 defects, and 26 had apparent left ventricular cavity dilatation with exercise, with 15 having coexistence of these abnormal findings. Of the 37 patients with reversible 201T1 abnormalities, 27 (73%) had metabolic evidence of myocardial ischemia during rapid atrial pacing (myocardial lactate extraction of 0 mmol/l or less) compared with four of 13 patients (31%) with normal 201T1 scans (p<0.01). Eleven patients had apparent cavity dilatation as their only 201T1 abnormality; their mean postpacing left ventricular end-diastolic pressure was significantly higher than that of the 13 patients with normal 2OtTl studies (33±5 versus 21±10 mm Hg, p<O.OOl). There was no correlation between the angiographic presence of systolic septal or epicardial coronary arterial compression and the presence or distribution of 201TI abnormalities. Patients with ischemic ST segment responses to exercise had an 80% prevalence rate of reversible 20MT1 abnormalities and a 70% prevalence rate of pacing-induced ischemia. However, 69% of patients with nonischemic ST segment responses had reversible 20MT1 abnormalities, and 55% had pacing-induced ischemia. Conclusions. Reversible 2OtTl abnormalities during exercise stress are markers of myocardial ischemia in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and most likely identify relatively underperfused myocardium. In contrast, ST segment changes with exercise and systolic compression of coronary arteries on angiography are unreliable markers of inducible myocardial ischemia in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Apparent cavity dilatation during 20tTI scintigraphy may indicate ischemia-related changes in left ventricular filling, with elevation in diastolic pressures and endocardial compression. (Circulation 1991;83:1660-1667)

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تاریخ انتشار 2005