Comparison of Echocardiographic Techniques in Diagnosis of Coronary Artery Disease
Information source: National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (CC)
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Condition(s) targeted: Coronary Disease
Intervention: Myocardial contrast echocardiography (Procedure); Stress echocardiography with dobutamine (Procedure)
Phase: Phase 2
Status: Completed
Sponsored by: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
Summary
This study is designed to compare two different echocardiographic techniques in the
evaluation of heart disease (coronary artery disease). Both tests called Myocardial
Contrast Echocardiography with Pharmacologic Stress and Stress Echocardiography with
Dobutamine, are performed using a standard echocardiographic machine.
Myocardial Contrast Echocardiography (MCE) does not use radioactivity. It uses sound waves
like standard echocardiography. However, with MCE patients receive an injection of a
"contrast agent" directly into the blood stream through a vein. The contrast agent, called
Optison, is made of tiny microbubbles smaller than red blood cells. The echocardiogram can
detect these microbubbles in the small blood vessels of the heart muscle and allow
researchers to find areas of the heart receiving less blood flow than others. It is
important to observe the heart during exercise because there are changes in blood flow.
Since MCE cannot be performed when the patient is exercising, researchers give medication
(adenosine) that stimulates the heart and creates a situation similar to exercise.
Stress Echocardiography with Dobutamine does not use radioactivity. It uses sound waves like
standard echocardiography. During this echocardiogram patients receive doses of a
medication called dobutamine that stimulates the heart to beat stronger and faster.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the accuracy of MCE compared to stress
echocardiography at detecting coronary artery disease (CAD).
Clinical Details
Official title: Comparison of Myocardial Contrast Echo With Dobutamine Echo in Diagnosis of Coronary Artery Disease
Study design: Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study, Primary Purpose: Treatment
Detailed description:
Stress echocardiography has become a valuable technique for the non-invasive detection of
coronary artery disease (CAD). Its accuracy has been shown to be superior to that of the
exercise electrocardiogram and comparable to that of myocardial perfusion imaging.
Myocardial contrast echocardiography (MCE) offers the potential to evaluate tissue perfusion
at the level where oxygen transfer to the myocytes occurs. MCE can, therefore, provide
information regarding the functional status of the myocardial microvasculature and presence
of blood flow disparity. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the accuracy of MCE
compared to stress echocardiography. We will correlate these results with findings from
coronary angiography and compare the ability of those techniques to detect CAD.
Eligibility
Minimum age: N/A.
Maximum age: N/A.
Gender(s): Both.
Criteria:
Patients with known or suspected coronary artery disease.
Adults 18 years of age or older.
No pre-menopausal patients who are lactating, pregnant or potentially pregnant as judged
by history, physical examination, ultrasound or urine pregnancy test.
No unstable angina patients.
No recent myocardial infarction patients (less than 1 month).
No frequent ectopy which precludes adequate image acquisition.
No history of asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
No patients receiving aminophylline, theophylline or dipyridamole.
No presence of second and third degree heart block without pacemaker.
No significant hypertension (systolic blood pressure greater than 170 mm Hg) or
hypotension (systolic blood pressure less than 100 mm Hg).
No hypotension: basal sitting systolic arterial pressure less than 100 mm Hg confirmed 30
minutes later.
No sinus tachycardia greater than or equal to 100 beats per min.
No atrial fibrillation.
No inadequate two-dimensional echocardiographic windows.
Locations and Contacts
National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), Bethesda, Maryland 20892, United States
Additional Information
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Starting date: March 1999
Last updated: March 3, 2008
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