Exercise Electrocardiogram Neither Predicts Nor Excludes Coronary Artery Disease in Women with Low to Intermediate Risk.

Aim: The value of exercise electrocardiogram (ExECG) in symptomatic female patients with low to intermediate risk for significant coronary artery disease (CAD) has been under debate for many years, and nondiagnostic or even erroneous test results are frequently encountered. Cardiac-CT may be more appropriate to exclude CAD in women. This study compares the results of ExECGs with those of cardiac-CTs, performed within a time frame of 1 month in an all-comers female chest pain population.

Occurrence of typical perfusion defects attributed to jailed or occluded side branch after ramus descendens anterior stenting in a patient cohort referred for 13NH3 myocardial PET/CT.

Aim: Coronary stenting is frequently accompanied by occlusion or jailing of side branches. This can cause small reversible or persistent perfusion defects on myocardial perfusion single photon emission computed tomography studies, but data from NH3 myocardial perfusion PET/computed tomography (CT) are lacking. This study aimed to describe the occurrence of perfusion defects in patients with ramus descendes anterior (RDA) stents on myocardial perfusion imaging as measured by NH3 PET/CT.