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Prognostic Value of Lung Sestamibi Uptake in Myocardial Perfusion Imaging of Patients With Known or Suspected Coronary Artery Disease

William D. Leslie, MD, MSc^_*,_*, Shawn A. Tully, MD^_*, Marina S. Yogendran, MSc, Linda M. Ward, RT(NM)^_*, Khaled A. Nour, MD^_* and Colleen J. Metge, PhD

^_* Department of Nuclear Medicine, St. Boniface General Hospital, Winnipeg, Canada
Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, Winnipeg, Canada.

View larger version (21K): [in a new window]   Figure 1 Receiver operating characteristic analysis for predicting death or acute myocardial infarction from stress lung-to-heart ratio (LHR) (solid line) or summed stress score (SSS) (dotted line).

View larger version (19K): [in a new window]   Figure 2 Kaplan-Meier plots of event-free survival according stress lung-to-heart ratio (LHR) tertile.

View larger version (22K): [in a new window]   Figure 3 Incremental contribution of clinical, stress procedure, perfusion, left ventricular volume, and lung uptake variables on prediction of acute myocardial infarction (MI) or death (see text for details). (A) All patients. (B) Treadmill exercise patients only.