Comparative efficiency of bicycle stresses-echocardiography and dopplerography of coronary arteries in diagnosis of the latent coronary insufficiency

Modern angiographic and stressful ultrasonic technologies possess the big possibilities in diagnostics of the latent coronary insufficiency. Purpose. To compare sensitivity and specificity of bicycle stress-echocardiography, dopplerography of coronary arteries and combined method in diagnostics of significant stenosis of coronary arteries were used. Design/methodology/approach. Two groups of patients were analyzed: 35 persons from more than 50 % stenosis of coronary arteries and 39 persons without significant stenosis. Dopplerography of coronary arteries and stress-echocardiography were performed in all patients. The ROC-analysis of sensitivity and specificity of each method and the combined technology in diagnostics of the general CAD, left anterior-descending CAD, and the right coronary CAD was spent. Findings. The dopplerography of coronary arteries has shown sensitivity of 77 %, specificity of 97 %, for LAD - 81 and 97 %, for RA - 50 and 98 %. The stress-echocardiography has shown sensitivity of 83 %, specificity of 95 %, for LAD - 89 and 95 %, for RA - 63 and 98 % The combined technique has shown sensitivity of 93 %, specificity - 95 %, for LAD - 96 and 94 %, for RA - 75 and 98 %. Conclusion. The combined technique is characterized by the robust reproducibility at the expense of revealing of loading infringements local contractility of myocardium in patients with not detected stenosis, and also at the expense of revealing of vascular narrowing in persons with well developed indemnification of deficiency of a blood-groove on the changed vessel.