Appropriate use of noninvasive ischemia testing to guide revascularization decision making following acute ST elevation myocardial infarction in Latin American countries: Results from an expert panel meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Across Latin American and Caribbean countries, cardiovascular disease and especially ischemic heart disease is currently the main cause of death both in men and in women. For most Latin American and Caribbean countries, public and community health efforts aim to define care strategies which are both clinically and cost effective and promote primary and secondary prevention, resulting in improved patient outcomes. The optimal approach to deal with acute events such as ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) is a matter of controversy; however, there is an expanding role for assessing residual ischemic burden in STEMI patients following primary percutaneous coronary intervention. Although randomized clinical trials have established the value of staged fractional flow reserve-guided revascularization, the use of noninvasive functional imaging modalities may play a similar role at a much lower cost. For LAC, available stress imaging techniques could be applied to define residual ischemia in the non-infarct related artery and to target revascularization in a staged procedure after primary percutaneous coronary intervention The use of nuclear cardiac imaging, supported by its relatively wide availability, moderate cost, and robust quantitative capabilities, may serve to guide effective care and to reduce subsequent cardiac events in patients with coronary artery disease. This noninvasive approach may avert potential safety issues with repeat and lengthy invasive procedures, and serve as a baseline for subsequent follow-up stress testing following the index STEMI event. This consensus document was devised from an expert panel meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency, highlighting available evidence with a focus on the utility of stress myocardial perfusion imaging in post-STEMI patients. The document could serve as guidance to the prudent and appropriate use of nuclear imaging for targeting therapeutic management and avoiding unnecessary invasive procedures within Latin American and Caribbean countries, where resources could be scarce.
['Berrocal|I|I|', 'Peix|A|A|', 'Mut|F|F|', 'Shaw|L J|LJ|', 'Karthikeyan|G|G|', 'Estrada Lobato|E|E|', 'Paez|D|D|']
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Percutaneous coronary intervention Enfermedad coronaria multivaso Gated-SPECT de perfusión miocárdica Gated-SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging Infarto agudo de miocardio con elevación del segmento ST Intervención coronaria percutánea Multivessel disease ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction