Evaluación de perfusión miocárdica con talio 201 en pacientes con bloqueo completo de rama izquierda del haz de his / Evaluation of myocardial perfusion with thalium 201 in patients with complete left bundle branch block

Thalium 201 myocardial scintigraphy was used to evaluate coronary perfusion in 20 patients with left bundle branch suspected of having coronary artery disease. Contemporary arteriography was performed in 9 of these patients. sensitivity and specificity of the method was similar to that obtained in patients without LBBB. A false positive results indicated ischemia f the interventricular septal region in a patient with normal coronaru arteries, a known limitation of the method