Prognostic Value of Vasodilator Stress Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging: A Multicenter Study With 48 000 Patient-Years of Follow-up.

ABSTRACT: Importance:Stress cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) is not widely used in current clinical practice, and its ability to predict patient mortality is unknown. Objective:To determine whether stress CMR is associated with patient mortality. Design, Setting, and Participants:Real-world evidence from consecutive clinically ordered CMR examinations. Multicenter study of patients undergoing clinical evaluation of myocardial ischemia. Patients with known or suspected coronary artery disease (CAD) underwent clinical vasodilator stress CMR at 7 different hospitals. An automated process collected data from the finalized clinical reports, deidentified and aggregated the data, and assessed mortality using the US Social Security Death Index. Main Outcomes and Measures:All-cause patient mortality.

SUBMITTER: Heitner JF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6439546 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature