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J Am Coll Cardiol, 2001; 37:1310-1315
© 2001 by the American College of Cardiology Foundation
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Physiologic assessment of coronary artery stenosis by coronary flow reserve measurements with transthoracic doppler echocardiography: comparison with exercise thallium-201 single-photon emission computed tomography

Masao Daimon, MDa, Hiroyuki Watanabe, MDa, Hiroyuki Yamagishi, MDa, Takashi Muro, MDa, Kaname Akioka, MDa, Kumiko Hirata, MDa, Kazuhide Takeuchi, MDa and Junichi Yoshikawa, MD, FACCa

a Department of Internal Medicine and Cardiology, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka City University, Osaka, Japan



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Figure 1 Spectral Doppler signals at baseline (left) and during hyperemia (right) in a patient with abnormal myocardial perfusion in the left anterior descending coronary artery (LAD) territories (A) and in a patient with normal perfusion in the LAD territories (B).

 


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Figure 2 The correlation between coronary flow reserve (CFR) (peak and mean) and the results of Tl-201–SPECT was good. There was overall agreement in 30 (91%) of 33 patients.

 




 
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