Author | Number of patients | Tracer | Analysis | MI excluded | Quality | Sensitivity | Specificity |
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*Values were calculated for patients with and without myocardial infarction, values shown include those with myocardial infarction. | |||||||
Sensitivity and specificity values for coronary stenosis ⩾50%. Quality is rated according to the number of quality criteria (adequate description of study group, avoidance of verification bias, avoidance of diagnostic and test review bias) met. | |||||||
MI, myocardial infarction; mibi, technetium-99m sestamibi; Q, quantitative analysis; tetro, technetium-99m tetrofosmin; Tl-201, thallium-201; V, visual analysis. | |||||||
Nguyen 199038 | 60 | Tl-201 | V | no | Medium | 92% | 100% |
Verani 199039 | 45 | Tl-201 | Q | no | Medium | 83% | 94% |
Coyne 199110 | 100 | Tl-201 | V | *both | Medium | 83% | 76% |
Nishimura 199140 | 101 | Tl-201 | V | *both | High | 84% | 84% |
Allman 199241 | 76 | Tl-201 | Q | yes | Low | 85% | 38% |
Pennell 199542 | 226 | Tl-201 | V | no | High | 96% | 78% |
Mohiuddin 199643 | 202 | Tl-201 | Q | no | High | 90% | 86% |
Amanullah 199344 | 40 | mibi | V | no | Medium | 94% | 100% |
Marwick 199345 | 97 | mibi | V | yes | Medium | 86% | 71% |
Jamil 199946 | 32 | mibi | V | no | Medium | 75% | – |