Published online before print March 12, 2007, doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.106.652016
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(Circulation. 2007;115:1769-1776.)
© 2007 American Heart Association, Inc.
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Prognostic Value of Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Stress Tests
Adenosine Stress Perfusion and Dobutamine Stress Wall Motion Imaging
From the Department of Internal Medicine/Cardiology, German Heart Institute, Berlin, Germany.
Correspondence to Ingo Paetsch, MD, Internal Medicine/Cardiology, German Heart Institute Berlin, Augustenburger Platz 1, 13353 Berlin, Germany. E-mail paetsch{at}dhzb.de
Received July 14, 2006; accepted February 1, 2007.
Background— Adenosine stress magnetic resonance perfusion (MRP) and dobutamine stress magnetic resonance (DSMR) wall motion analyses are highly accurate for the detection of myocardial ischemia. However, knowledge about the prognostic value of stress MR examinations is limited. We sought to determine the value of MRP and DSMR, as assessed during a single-session examination, in predicting the outcome of patients with known or suspected coronary artery disease.
Methods and Results— In 513 patients (with known or suspected coronary disease, prior coronary artery bypass graft, or percutaneous coronary intervention), a combined single-session magnetic resonance stress examination (MRP and DSMR) was performed at 1.5 T. For first-pass perfusion imaging, the standard adenosine stress imaging protocol (140 µg · kg–1 · min–1 for 6 minutes, 3-slice turbo field echo–echo-planar imaging or steady-state free precession sequence, 0.05 mmol/kg Gd-DTPA) was applied, and for DSMR, the standard high-dose dobutamine/atropine protocol (steady-state free-precession cine sequence) was applied. Stress testing was classified as pathological if at MRP 
1 segment showed an inducible perfusion deficit >25% transmurality or if at DSMR 1 segment showed an inducible wall motion abnormality. During a median follow-up of 2.3 years (range, 0.06 to 4.55 years), 19 cardiac events occurred (4.1%; 9 cardiac deaths, 10 nonfatal myocardial infarctions). The 3-year event-free survival was 99.2% for patients with normal MRP and DSMR and 83.5% for those with abnormal MRP and DSMR. Univariate analysis showed ischemia identified by MRP and DSMR to be predictive of cardiac events (hazard ratio, 12.51; 95% confidence interval, 3.64 to 43.03; and hazard ratio, 5.42; 95% confidence interval, 2.18 to 13.50; P<0.001, respectively); other predictors were diabetes mellitus, known coronary artery disease, and the presence of resting wall motion abnormality. By multivariate analysis, ischemia on magnetic resonance stress testing (MRP or DSMR) was an independent predictor of cardiac events. In a stepwise multivariate model (Cox regression), an abnormal magnetic resonance stress test result had significant incremental value over clinical risk factors and resting wall motion abnormality (P<0.001).
Conclusions— In patients with known or suspected coronary artery disease, myocardial ischemia detected by MRP and DSMR can be used to identify patients at high risk for subsequent cardiac death or nonfatal myocardial infarction. For patients with normal MRP and DSMR, the 3-year event-free survival was 99.2%. MR stress testing provides important incremental information over clinical risk factors and resting wall motion abnormalities.
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