Author: Kapur Akhil Qureshi Ayesha C. Gallagher Sean Finlay Malcolm Malik Iqbal S. Mayet Jamil Roughton Michael Beatt Kevin J. Hall Roger J. Nihoyannopoulos Petros
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISSN: 1525-2167
Source: European Journal of Echocardiography, Vol.12, Iss.12, 2011-11, pp. : 904-909
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Abstract
AimsThe CARDia (Coronary Artery Revascularization in Diabetes) trial compared coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) and optimal percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in diabetic patients with multivessel coronary disease. Patients enrolled had symptoms of myocardial ischaemia. As symptom assessment is flawed in diabetic patients, a substudy was undertaken to compare the extent to which these revascularization strategies alter reversible ischaemia.Methods and resultsSeventy-one patients underwent stress echo at baseline and at 6 months. A 17-segment echocardiographic wall motion score index (WMSI) was assigned at baseline [WMSI(pre)] and at 6 months [WMSI(post)]. An overall score defined the difference: WMSI(
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