Quantitation of Cardiac Output Change by Impedance Cardiography in Subjects Undergoing Exercise Gated Stress/Rest Tc-99m CZT-SPECT MPI (NICAS)

Sheba Medical Center

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Coronary Artery Disease

Treatments: Other: exercise; Device: Single photon emission computed tomography myocardial perfusion imaging

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02863939

NICAS 1.0

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study is to test for an early post-stress cardiac output (CO) change by impedance cardiography and its relation to the severity and extent of myocardial ischemia and angiographic coronary disease in subjects undergoing exercise stress testing using a novel cadmium-zinc-telluride (CZT) SPECT camera.

Full description

Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) is a well-established noninvasive procedure for the evaluation and risk stratification of patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) (1). However, it has been recognized that in certain patients SPECT MPI is unable to detect the presence of or underestimates the extent of CAD. The fact that moderate to severe perfusion defects are noted in less than half of the patients with significant left main disease (2) has stimulated studies to improve the diagnostic accuracy of SPECT MPI. Such studies have analyzed post-stress parameters such as left ventricular (LV) ejection fraction (EF) (3, 4), wall motion abnormalities (5) and transient LV dilation (6) with images acquired on conventional Anger cameras as long as 60 minutes after the stress tracer injection. Such delayed assessment may miss early ischemic stunning as a result of its transient nature. However, detection of an early post-stress decrease in cardiac output (CO) may serve as a potential marker for the presence of significant or extensive ischemia. The aim of this study is to test for an early post-stress CO change by impedance cardiography and its relation to the severity and extent of myocardial ischemia and angiographic coronary disease in subjects undergoing exercise stress testing using a novel cadmium-zinc-telluride (CZT) SPECT camera.

Enrollment: 100 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 19 to 79 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients referred to the Nuclear Cardiology Center for a clinically indicated exercise stress MPI study

Exclusion criteria

• known standard contraindications for ergometry
• anemia
• hyperthyroidism
• intra- and extra-cardiac shunts
• significant arrhythmia
• hemodialysis

Trial design

Primary purpose: Diagnostic

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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100 participants in 1 patient group

NICAS

Other group

Description:

There is only one arm - a single cohort. All patients undergoing the nuclear stress test will also have the NICAS evaluation.

Treatment:

Other: exercise

Device: Single photon emission computed tomography myocardial perfusion imaging