Diagnostic performance of dobutamine SPECT MPI
| Author | Number of patients | Tracer | Analysis | MI excluded | Quality | Sensitivity | Specificity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| *Values were calculated for patients with and without myocardial infarction, values shown include those with myocardial infarction; †coronary stenosis ⩾70%. | |||||||
| Sensitivity and specificity values for coronary stenosis ⩾50% and coronary stenosis ⩾70%. 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; uns, unspecified; V, visual analysis. | |||||||
| Pennell 199147 | 50 | Tl-201 | V | no | Medium | 97% | 80% |
| Warner 199348 | 16 | Tl-201 | V | no | Medium | 93% | 100% |
| Hays 199349 | 67 | Tl-201 | Q | no | Medium | 86% | 90% |
| Huang 199750 | 93 | Tl-201 | Q | no | High | 90% | 81% |
| Huang 199851 | 110 | Tl-201 | V | yes | High | 82% | 82% |
| Caner 199752 | 29 | Tl-201; mibi | V | uns | High | 89% | 70% |
| Gunalp 199353 | 27 | mibi | V | yes | Medium | 94% | 89% |
| Forster 199354 | 21 | mibi | V | yes | High | 83% | 89% |
| Marwick 199345 | 97 | mibi | V | yes | Medium | 80% | 74% |
| Marwick 199355 | 217 | mibi | Q | yes | High | 76% | 67% |
| Mairesse 199456 | 129 | mibi | V | yes | High | 76% | 65% |
| Marwick 199419 | 82 | mibi | V | yes | Medium | 65% | 68% |
| Senior 199457 | 61 | mibi | V | no | High | 95% | 71% |
| Di Bello 199658 | 45 | mibi | V | yes | High | 87% | 86% |
| Iftihar 199659 | 38 | mibi | V | no | Medium | 79% | 90% |
| Kisacik 199660 | 69 | mibi | V | no | High | 96% | 64% |
| Slavich 199661 | 46 | mibi | V | yes | Medium | 82% | 83% |
| San Roman 199862 | 92 | mibi | Q | yes | High | 87% | 70% |
| †Santoro 199863 | 60 | mibi | Q | yes | High | 91% | 81% |
| Elhendy 199864 | 70 | mibi | V | no | Low | 64% | 72% |