Relationship of epicardial fat volume from noncontrast CT with impaired myocardial flow reserve by positron emission tomography

Otaki Y, Hell M, Slomka PJ, Schuhbaeck A, Gransar H, Huber B, Nakazato R, Germano G, Hayes SW, Thomson LEJ, Friedman JD, Achenbach S, Berman DS, Dey D (2015)


Publication Type: Journal article

Publication year: 2015

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Book Volume: 9

Pages Range: 303-9

Journal Issue: 4

DOI: 10.1016/j.jcct.2015.03.005

Abstract

Impaired myocardial flow reserve (MFR) is a marker of coronary vascular dysfunction with prognostic significance.We aimed to investigate the relationship between epicardial fat volume (EFV) measured from noncontrast CT and impaired MFR derived from rest-stress Rb-82 positron emission tomography (PET).We retrospectively studied 85 consecutive patients without known coronary artery disease who underwent rest-stress Rb-82 myocardial PET/CT and were subsequently referred for invasive coronary angiography. EFV was computed from noncontrast CT by validated software and indexed to body surface area (EFVi, cm3/m2). Global stress and rest MFR were automatically derived from PET. Patient age, sex, cardiovascular risk factors, coronary calcium score (CCS), and EFVi were combined by boosted ensemble machine learning algorithm into a novel composite risk score, using 10-fold cross-validation, to predict impaired global MFR (MFR <=2.0) by PET.Patients with impaired MFR (44 of 85; 52%) were older (71 vs. 65 years; P = .03) and had higher frequency of CCS (>=400; P = .02) with significantly higher EFVi (63.1 ± 20.4 vs. 51.3 ± 14.1 cm3/m2; P = .003). On multivariate logistic regression (with age, sex, number of risk factors, CCS, and EFVi), EFVi was the only independent predictor of impaired MFR (odds ratio, 7.39; P = .02). The machine learning composite risk score significantly improved risk reclassification of impaired MFR compared to CCS or EFVi alone (integrated discrimination improvement = 0.19; P = .007 and IDI = 0.22; P = .002, respectively).Increased EFVi and composite risk score combining EFVi and CCS significantly improve identification of impaired global MFR by PET.

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Otaki, Y., Hell, M., Slomka, P.J., Schuhbaeck, A., Gransar, H., Huber, B.,... Dey, D. (2015). Relationship of epicardial fat volume from noncontrast CT with impaired myocardial flow reserve by positron emission tomography. Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography, 9(4), 303-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcct.2015.03.005

MLA:

Otaki, Yuka, et al. "Relationship of epicardial fat volume from noncontrast CT with impaired myocardial flow reserve by positron emission tomography." Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography 9.4 (2015): 303-9.

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