Diagnosis of Coronary Artery Disease in High Risk Diabetic Patients

Société Française de Cardiologie

Status: Terminated

Conditions: Diabetes Mellitus

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00202670

2003-04

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study is to determine in high risk diabetics if the positive predictive value of stress echocardiography is superior to the positive predictive value of stress scintigraphy in the diagnosis of coronary stenosis > 50%.

Full description

Comparison Between Stress Echocardiography and Stress Scintigraphy in the Detection of Silent Myocardial Ischemia

Enrollment: 220 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• type 2 diabetic patients in women> 60 yo or men > 55 yo, with high risk of coronary artery disease (EF < 40%, ECG abnormalities, renal failure , 2 others risk factors of atherosclerosis)

Exclusion criteria

• previous documented CAD acute coronary syndrome

Trial design

220 participants in 2 patient groups

1

Description:

SPECT

2

Description:

dobutamine echocardiography