Coronary ¹⁸F-Sodium Fluoride Uptake Predicts Outcomes in Patients With Coronary Artery Disease.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Reliable methods for predicting myocardial infarction in patients with established coronary artery disease are lacking. Coronary ¹⁸F-sodium fluoride (¹⁸F-NaF) positron emission tomography (PET) provides an assessment of atherosclerosis activity.

Objectives

This study assessed whether ¹⁸F-NaF PET predicts myocardial infarction and provides additional prognostic information to current methods of risk stratification.

Methods

Patients with known coronary artery disease underwent ¹⁸F-NaF PET computed tomography and were followed up for fatal or nonfatal myocardial infarction over 42 months (interquartile range: 31 to 49 months). Total coronary ¹⁸F-NaF uptake was determined by the coronary microcalcification

SUBMITTER: Kwiecinski J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7380446 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature