Correlation of myocardial Tc99m- MIBI perfusion SPECT with coronary angiography in namazi hospital/ Shiraz / Iran

ABSTRACT

Coronary heart disease [CAD] is the leading cause of death specially among elderly. Coronary angiography is the best diagnostic method in the patients, but is unfortunately an invasive procedure with its inherent risks. Myocardial perfusion scan is a noninvasive and sensitive method for evaluation of CAD and is suggested by many investigators in recent years. In this study, 64 patients who had a Tc-99m MIBI SPECT myocardial perfusion study at our department, underwent coronary angiography within 4 months. Correlation of the methods revealed that SPECT Tc-99m-MIBI had a high sensitivity and specificity in our hand, which is comparable with international findings: