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(Circulation. 1997;95:1176-1184.)
© 1997 American Heart Association, Inc.

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Clinical and Prognostic Usefulness of Supine Bicycle Exercise Echocardiography in the Functional Evaluation of Patients Undergoing Elective Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty

Armando Dagianti, MD, FESC; Salvatore Rosanio, MD, PhD; Maria Penco, MD; Alessandra Dagianti, Jr, MD; Susanna Sciomer, MD; Monica Tocchi, MD; Luciano Agati, MD; Francesco Fedele, MD

the Divisions of I Cardiology and III Cardiology, Department of Cardiovascular and Respiratory Sciences, La Sapienza University, Rome, and the Department of Cardiology (M.P.), University of L'Aquila, Italy.

Correspondence to Salvatore Rosanio, MD, PhD, Via FM Guidi 11, 82100 Benevento, Italy.

Background Supine bicycle exercise echocardiography (SBEE) has never been used before and early after percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) for assessing the functional outcome of the procedure and predicting late restenosis.

Methods and Results We selected 76 subjects with stable angina, normal wall motion at rest, and exercise-induced wall-motion abnormalities before PTCA. SBEE with peak exercise imaging and the use of a 16-segment, four-grade score model was performed 54±15 hours after PTCA. No exercise-related adverse events occurred. Patients were grouped according to SBEE results: group 1 (n=35, 46%) with negative exercise ECG and echo; group 2 (n=19, 25%) with a positive exercise ECG but normal echo; and group 3 (n=22, 29%) with a positive exercise echo with either a positive (n=7, 32%) or negative (n=15, 68%) ECG. Exercise performance significantly improved in all groups. In group 3, peak wall-motion score index decreased from 1.27±0.11 before to 1.15±0.06 after PTCA (P<.05), and duration of wall-motion abnormalities went from 81±24 to 47±19 seconds (P<.05). The rate of clinical restenosis (ie, angina recurrence or positive 6-month SBEE in asymptomatic patients, both associated with angiographic restenosis >50%) was 37%. By multiple logistic regression analysis, clinical restenosis was associated with a positive post-PTCA exercise echo (odds ratio [OR] 3.08, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.66 to 5.72; P=.0004) and with increasing values of pre-PTCA wall-motion score index (OR 2.86, 95% CI 1.92 to 4.27; P=.005) and duration of wall-motion abnormalities (OR 2.12, 95% CI 1.07 to 4.20; P=.04).

Conclusions SBEE is a safe and reliable tool to demonstrate changes in exercise-induced wall-motion abnormalities after PTCA and provides prognostic information in the risk assessment of clinical restenosis.

Key Words: exercise • echocardiography • angioplasty • restenosis

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