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Detection of Coronary Artery Disease in Asymptomatic Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

Roldano Scognamiglio, MD^_*,_*, Christian Negut, MD^_*, Angelo Ramondo, MD, Antonio Tiengo, MD^_* and Angelo Avogaro, MD^_*

^_* Metabolic Cardiology, Division of Metabolic Diseases, University of Padua Medical School, Padua, Italy
Division of Cardiology, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Padua Medical School, Padua, Italy

View larger version (35K): [in a new window]   Figure 1 Flow chart of study population.

View larger version (16K): [in a new window]   Figure 2 (A) Prevalence of one-, two-, or three-vessel coronary artery disease (CAD) in type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM2) patients with myocardial perfusion abnormalities at stress myocardial contrast echocardiography and two or more associated risk factors (RF) (group A) or no more than one RF (group B). (B) Prevalence of a "diffuse" coronary disease (defined by the presence of significant stenosis in two or more coronary vessels involving two or more segments of each artery) and of total occlusion in at least one epicardial vessel in group A and B patients with DM2.