TABLE 2.
Baseline and 2-Year Follow-up 11C-HED PET Left Ventricle Sympathetic Cardiac Denervation in 23 Patients with IPD
| Variable | Baseline | 2-y follow-up | Matched-paired Student t test |
| Global LV (mL of blood/min/mL of tissue) | 0.0481 ± 0.0218 | 0.0432 ± 0.0220 | 3.509 (P = 0.001) |
| Percentage LV extent (%) | 59.2 | 66.1 | −2.198 (P = 0.0194) |
| Z-severity LV | −2.44 | −2.52 | 0.8007 (P = not significant) |
| Percentage left circumflex extent (%) | 66.0 | 69.6 | −2.2218 (P = 0.0184) |
| Percentage left anterior descending extent (%) | 56.2 | 65.0 | −2.3940 (P = 0.0128) |
| Percentage right coronary artery extent (%) | 61.7 | 65.7 | −1.3490 (P = 0.0955, not significant) |
| Global LV SEP | −194.6 | −226.6 | 2.944 (P = 0.003) |
Data in parentheses are significance levels.