Abstract:
Objective To evaluate the value of radionuclide myocardial perfusion/metabolic imaging in the assessment of left ventricular systolic function after percutaneous coronary intervention and percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) in patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI).
Methods The present study was a retrospective analysis of 36 patients (male/female, 27/9; age, 57.9±12.3 years) with AMI who were treated with PTCA in the First Affiliated Hospital of Shanxi Medical University from June 2015 to December 2017. All patients received PTCA treatment within 1 week of onset of AMI. SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging and PET/CT myocardial metabolic imaging were performed 3 days before and 6–8 months after treatment. Patients were then divided into two groups, namely, group A (left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) change value (ΔLVEF), ΔLVEF≥5%) and group B (ΔLVEF<5%). The t- and χ2 tests were used to compare differences between the two groups in terms of clinical data (LVEF, peak ejection rate (PER), ratio of surviving myocardium/necrotic myocardium (S/N) and cardiac troponini (cTnI) Logistic regression was used to analyze the factors affecting left ventricular systolic function. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis determined the S/N ratio cutoff for improved LVEF values (ΔLVEF≥5%).
Results No statistically significant differences in gender, age, body mass index, history of smoking, hypertension, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, and angina were found between the two groups (all P>0.05). Before PTCA treatment, differences in LVEF, PER, and troponin cTnI between groups A and B were not statistically significant but differences in S/N ratio (group A: 1.24±1.06, group B: 0.58±0.37) were statistically significant (t=0.824, P=0.042). After PTCA treatment, differences in LVEF (group A: 47±12, group B: 38±10), PER (group A: 2.11±0.48, group B: 1.71±0.50), and S/N ratio (group A: 0.73±0.47, group B: 0.62±0.39) between the two groups were statistically significant (t=−2.528, −2.366, −2.514; P=0.016, 0.024, 0.017) but the difference in cTnI was not statistically significant. Multivariate Logistic regression analysis showed that the S/N ratio is an independent influencing factor of ΔLVEF (OR=2.164, P=0.018). ROC curve results showed that the S/N ratio could be used to predict the cut-off value (0.62) of ΔLVEF≥5% after PTCA treatment in AMI patients. The area under the curve was 0.823 (95%CI: 0.661–0.985), the specificity was 85.71%, and the sensitivity was 91.54%.
Conclusion Radionuclide myocardial perfusion/metabolic imaging has important clinical value in evaluating left ventricular systolic function after PTCA treatment in AMI patients.