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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2011 Jan;24(1):53–59. doi: 10.1016/j.echo.2010.10.015

Table 2.

Coronary artery visualization rates as determined by core laboratory stratified by local center.

CA segment Site 1 Site 2 Site 3 Site 4 Site 5 Site 6 Site 7 Site 8 P-value
N* 93 154 80 71 30 51 81 29

LMCA (%) 100 98 100 97 100 100 100 97 0.99
Proximal LAD (%) 100 100 100 93 100 96 99 93 0.89
Distal LAD (%) 93 98 98 82 93 84 93 66 <.001
Proximal RCA (%) 98 100 99 92 100 96 100 93 0.59
Distal RCA (%) 67 92 36 28 77 45 94 38 <.001
Circumflex (%) 90 92 85 68 90 80 95 79 0.005
PD (%) 51 67 48 39 47 41 78 7 <.001

CA: coronary artery; LAD: left anterior descending; LMCA: left main coronary artery; PD: posterior descending; RCA: right coronary artery

*

Counts indicate number of echocardiograms, not number of subjects