Percentage of attenuation drop of intra-mural coronary segment at diastolic phase coronary CTA in prediction of significant systolic compression of myocardial bridge / 中国医学影像技术

ABSTRACT

Objective To explore the diagnostic value of the percentage of attenuation drop measured by diastolic phase coronary CTA (CCTA) in identifying significant dynamic compression of myocardial bridge (MB).Methods Totally 135 patients with MB confirmed by CCTA were enrolled.The CT value of MB segment and proximal MB segment was measureed respectively.Attenuation of mural coronary artery(％) =(CT value of proximal MB segment-CT value of MB segment)/CT value of MB segment × 100 ％.Systolic compression ≥50 ％ was considered significant.The percentage of attenuation drop of MB vessel,length and depth of MB were measured and correlated with the presence and degree of dynamic compression.Results Attenuation drop of mural coronary artery(％),length of MB in MB patients with significant systolic compression,slight systolic compression and without systolic compression had significant statistical differences (all P＜0.05).ROC curve showed the percentage of attenuation had the best accuracy of 73.3％ in diagnosis of MB with significant systolic compression with the cutoff value of 15％ and the area under the curve (AUC) of 0.75 (95％ CI [0.67,0.82],P＜0.01).Conclusion Attenuation drop of MB segment has relationship with the extent of dynamic compression of MB and it has value to identify significant dynamic compression of MB.