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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jun 19.
Published in final edited form as: J Nucl Cardiol. 2014 Oct 24;22(2):325–333. doi: 10.1007/s12350-014-0004-4

Table 2.

Imaging characteristics

Normal cardiac
perfusion
(N = 295)
Abnormal cardiac perfusion on nuclear perfusion imaging
All defects
(N = 101)
vs normal
p value
Ischemia
(N = 66)
vs normal
p value
Infarction
(N = 35)
vs normal
p value
EFV (cm3)
 Total EFV (cm3) 99.8 ± 82.3 135.5 ± 118.4 0.002 156.4 ± 121.9 <0.0001 96.3 ± 102.1 0.99
 Left anterior descending 45.1 ± 31.9 66.9 ± 70.8 0.04 76.0 ± 73.2 0.005 45.3 ± 61.7 0.95
 Left circumflex 8.1 ± 10.7 13.1 ± 12.5 0.23 15.1 ± 12.2 0.37 6.8 ± 8.2 0.82
 Right 48.3 ± 31.9 53.7 ± 42.7 0.46 57.4 ± 47.1 0.03 44.9 ± 29.0 0.98
Coronary artery calcium score
 Total calcium score 458 ± 1118 731 ± 1522 0.17 357 ± 776 0.19 516 ± 1743 0.1
 Left main 51 ± 101 115 ± 159 0.043 109 ± 135 0.19 126 ± 203 0.42
 Left anterior descending 246 ± 488 371 ± 663 0.17 337 ± 442 0.16 422 ± 914 0.19
 Left circumflex 205 ± 762 249 ± 456 0.75 228 ± 409 0.72 292 ± 558 0.27
 Right 194 ± 446 274 ± 713 0.48 198 ± 322 0.79 493 ± 1328 0.81