Myocardial perfusion imaging with a contrast agent at a low concentration in the diagnosis of myocardial infarction in the elderly / 中华老年医学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To evaluate the clinical value of myocardial perfusion imaging with dual-source dual-energy CT and a contrast agent at a low concen.tration in the diagnosis of myocardial infarction in the elderly Methods One-stop cardiac imaging with dual-source CT was conducted in 138 elderly patients diagnosed with myocardial infarction between October 2015 and May 2016.The patients were randomly divided into two groups,Group A and Group B,each with 69 patients.Myocardial perfusion was performed for coronary imaging,using 70 ml Visipaque(270 g/L)and 50 ml saline for Group A and 70 ml iopromide(370 g/L)and 50 ml saline for Group B.Myocardial transmural perfusion gradients(TPG)were calculated,and the total iodine dose and the rate of iodine infusion were compared between the two groups.Results The procedure was successfully carried out in all 138 patients.There was no statistically significant difference in TPG between the two groups in the right coronary artery,the anterior descending artery and the circumflex artery(P＞0.05).The total iodine dose for Group A was 18.5 g,27％ less than that for Group B(25.9 g).The rate of iodine infusion for Group A was 3.5 g/s,also 27％ less than that for GroupB(18.5 g/s).Conclusions Myocardial perfusion imaging with dual-source dual-energy CT and contrast agents at low concentrations is a promising approach,which is capable of achieving quality imaging for the assessment of myocardial infarction with reduced use of iodine and represents a clinically valuable option.