Atypical pain and normal exercise test
Teaching Case Visit Teaching Case
Case presentation:
- Male.
- 67 y.o.
- Atypical angina (abdominal discomfort at stress).
- Normal exercise ECG.
- Submitted for stress myocardial perfusion study (MPS).
- Exercise/rest MPS was performed with 99mTc-sestamibi.
Teaching points:
- Abdominal pain / discomfort is not infrequent in patients with inferior wall ischemia.
- Sensitivity of exercise ECG is limited, especially in patients with one-vessel disease.
- Functional non-invasive stress imaging is indicated in patients with intermediate probability of CAD.
- MPS has the ability to identify disease in individual arteries, since the perfusion abnormalities usually correlate closely with coronary territories.