Diagnostic Performance of Positron Emission Tomography in the Detection of Coronary Artery Disease. A Meta-analysis

Academic Radiology

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 444-451

  Nandalur, Kiran R ^a,d   Dwamena, Ben A ^a,b   Choudhri, Asim F ^c   Nandalur, Sirisha R ^d   Reddy, Priya ^d   Carlos, Ruth C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^d WILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

coronary disease; Meta analysis; positron emission tomography

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; NITROGEN 13; RUBIDIUM 82;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONVENTIONAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; EMBASE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MEDLINE; META ANALYSIS; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PHANTOM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; X RAY;

CORONARY DISEASE; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 40649106959     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2007.08.012     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. Thom T., Haase N., Rosamond W., et al., American Heart Association Statistics Committee and Stroke Statistics Subcommittee. Heart disease and stroke statistics: 2006 Update: A report from the American Heart Association Statistics Committee and Stroke Statistics Subcommittee. Circulation 113 (2006) e85-e151
2. Whiting P., Rutjes A.W., Reitsma J.B., et al. The development of QUADAS: A tool for the quality assessment of studies of diagnostic accuracy included in systematic reviews. BMC Med Res Methodol 3 (2003) 25
3. Reitsma J.B., Glas A.S., Rutjes A.W., et al. Bivariate analysis of sensitivity and specificity produces informative summary measures in diagnostic reviews. J Clin Epidemiol 58 (2005) 982-990
4. Abramson B.L., Ruddy T.D., deKemp R.A., et al. Stress perfusion/metabolism imaging: A pilot study for a potential new approach to the diagnosis of coronary disease in women. J Nucl Cardiol 7 (2000) 205-212
5. Bateman T.M., Heller G.V., McGhie A.I., et al. Diagnostic accuracy of rest/stress ECG-gated Rb-82 myocardial perfusion PET: Comparison with ECG-gated Tc-99m sestamibi SPECT. J Nucl Cardiol 13 (2006) 24-33
6. Botsch H., Beringer K., Petersen J., et al. Single-photon emission tomography studies of rubidium-81 in the detection of ischaemic heart disease, using a stress-reinjection protocol. Eur J Nucl Med 21 (1994) 407-414
7. Go R.T., Marwick T.H., MacIntyre W.J., et al. A prospective comparison of rubidium-82 PET and thallium-201 SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging utilizing a single dipyridamole stress in the diagnosis of coronary artery disease. J Nucl Med 31 (1990) 1899-1905
8. Gould K.L., Goldstein R.A., Mullani N.A., et al. Noninvasive assessment of coronary stenoses by myocardial perfusion imaging during pharmacologic coronary vasodilation. VIII. Clinical feasibility of positron cardiac imaging without a cyclotron using generator-produced rubidium-82. J Am Coll Cardiol 7 (1986) 775-789
9. Grover-McKay M., Ratib O., Schwaiger M., et al. Detection of coronary artery disease with positron emission tomography and rubidium 82. Am Heart J 123 (1992) 646-652
10. Laubenbacher C., Rothley J., Sitomer J., et al. An automated analysis program for the evaluation of cardiac PET studies: Initial results in the detection and localization of coronary artery disease using nitrogen-13-ammonia. J Nucl Med 34 (1993) 968-978
11. Marwick T.H., Nemec J.J., Stewart W.J., et al. Diagnosis of coronary artery disease using exercise echocardiography and positron emission tomography: Comparison and analysis of discrepant results. J Am Soc Echocardiogr 5 (1992) 231-238
12. Muzik O., Duvernoy C., Beanlands R.S., et al. Assessment of diagnostic performance of quantitative flow measurements in normal subjects and patients with angiographically documented coronary artery disease by means of nitrogen-13 ammonia and positron emission tomography. J Am Coll Cardiol 31 (1998) 534-540
13. Namdar M., Hany T.F., Koepfli P., et al. Integrated PET/CT for the assessment of coronary artery disease: A feasibility study. J Nucl Med 46 (2005) 930-935
14. Sampson U.K., Dorbala S., Limaye A., et al. Diagnostic accuracy of rubidium-82 myocardial perfusion imaging with hybrid positron emission tomography/computed tomography in the detection of coronary artery disease. J Am Coll Cardiol 49 (2007) 1052-1058
15. Santana C.A., Folks R.D., Garcia E.V., et al. Quantitative (82)Rb PET/CT: Development and validation of myocardial perfusion database. J Nucl Med 48 (2007) 1122-1128
16. Schelbert H.R., Wisenberg G., Phelps M.E., et al. Noninvasive assessment of coronary stenoses by myocardial imaging during pharmacologic coronary vasodilation. VI. Detection of coronary artery disease in human beings with intravenous N-13 ammonia and positron computed tomography. Am J Cardiol 49 (1982) 1197-1207
17. Simone G.L., Mullani N.A., Page D.A., et al. Utilization statistics and diagnostic accuracy of a nonhospital-based positron emission tomography center for the detection of coronary artery disease using rubidium-82. Am J Physiol Imaging 7 (1992) 203-209
18. Stewart R.E., Schwaiger M., Molina E., et al. Comparison of rubidium-82 positron emission tomography and thallium-201 SPECT imaging for detection of coronary artery disease. Am J Cardiol 67 (1991) 1303-1310
19. Tamaki N., Yonekura Y., Senda M., et al. Myocardial positron computed tomography with 13N-ammonia at rest and during exercise. Eur J Nucl Med 11 (1985) 246-251
20. Tamaki N., Yonekura Y., Senda M., et al. Value and limitation of stress thallium-201 single photon emission computed tomography: Comparison with nitrogen-13 ammonia positron tomography. J Nucl Med 29 (1988) 1181-1188
21. Williams B.R., Mullani N.A., Jansen D.E., et al. A retrospective study of the diagnostic accuracy of a community hospital-based PET center for the detection of coronary artery disease using rubidium-82. J Nucl Med 35 (1994) 1586-1592
22. Yonekura Y., Tamaki N., Senda M., et al. Detection of coronary artery disease with 13N-ammonia and high-resolution positron-emission computed tomography. Am Heart J 113 (1987) 645-654
23. Sistrom C.L., and Garvan C.W. Proportions, odds, and risk. Radiology 230 (2004) 12-19
24. Patterson R.E., Eisner R.L., and Horowitz S.F. Comparison of cost-effectiveness and utility of exercise ECG, single photon emission computed tomography, positron emission tomography, and coronary angiography for diagnosis of coronary artery disease. Circulation 91 (1995) 54-65
25. Yoshinaga K., Chow B.J., Williams K., et al. What is the prognostic value of myocardial perfusion imaging using rubidium-82 positron emission tomography?. J Am Coll Cardiol 48 (2006) 1029-1039
26. Nandalur K.R., Dwamena B.A., Choudhri A.F., Nandalur M.R., and Carlos R.C. Diagnostic performance of stress cardiac magnetic resonance imaging in the detection of coronary artery disease: A meta-analysis. J Am Coll Cardiol 50 (2007) 1343-1353
27. Underwood S.R., Anagnostopoulos C., Cerqueira M., et al. Myocardial perfusion scintigraphy: The evidence. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 31 (2004) 261-291
28. Bax J.J., Van der Wall E.E., De Roos A., et al. State of the art and future directions. In: Zaret Bl., and Beller G.A. (Eds). Clinical Nuclear Cardiology (2005), Mosby, Philadelphia
29. Nandalur K.R., Baskurt E., Hagspiel K.D., et al. Calcified carotid atherosclerotic plaque is associated less with ischemic symptoms than is noncalcified plaque on MDCT. AJR Am J Roentgenol 184 (2005) 295-298
30. Nandalur K.R., Hardie A.D., Raghavan P., et al. Composition of the stable carotid plaque: Insights from a multidetector computed tomography study of plaque volume. Stroke 38 (2007) 935-940
31. Tawakol A., Migrino R.Q., Bashian G.G., et al. In vivo 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography imaging provides a noninvasive measure of carotid plaque inflammation in patients. J Am Coll Cardiol 48 (2006) 1818-1824