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European Heart Journal 1990 11(9):832-838;
Copyright © 1990 by the European Society of Cardiology.
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© 1990 The European Society of Cardiology

Cardiac evaluation of candidates for kidney transplantation: value of exercise radionuclide angiocardiography

C. COTTIER, M. PFISTERER, J. M{macron}LLER-BRAND*, G. THIEL{dagger} and F. BURKART

Divisions of Cardiology, University Hospital Basel Switzerland
*Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital Basel Switzerland
{dagger}Nephrology, University Hospital Basel Switzerland

Received 1 June 1989; revised 16 November 1989; .

Correspondence address: M. Pfisterer, M. D., F. E. S. C., Division of Cardiology, Dept. of Internal Medicine, University Hospital, CH-4031 Basel/Switerland.

Abstract

In view of the high incidence and mortality of coronary artery disease (CAD) in patients with kidney transplantation, a systematic cardiac evaluation was prospectively performed in 103 uraemic patients eligible for transplantation. After clinical examination, 28 patients with symptoms of CAD or diabetes mellitus were referred directly for coronary angiography, whereas the remaining 75 patients had rest and exercise radionuclide angiocardiography for evaluation of possible asymptomatic CAD. Among them, left ventricular ejection fraction was below 40% at rest or fell during exercise by at least 5 EF% in 12 patients; coronary angiography in nine showed CAD in four and hypertensive heart disease in five. In the remaining 63 (of 75) patients without severe resting left ventricular dysfunction or exercise ischaemia, the follow-up of 28 ±7 months revealed no clinical manifestation of CAD. Overall incidence of CAD in symptomatic and asymptomatic patients during a follow-up of 27 months after cardiac evaluation was 20 and 25% in non-diabetic and diabetic candidates for kidney transplantation, respectively (P = n.s.). Thus, clinical examination combined with exercise radionuclide angiocardiography in patients without signs or symptoms of heart disease had a high predictive accuracy for presence or absence of late manifestations of CAD. Exercise radionuclide angiocardiography is therefore a useful method for screening kidney transplantation candidates for asymptomatic CAD.

Key Words: Radionuclide angiocardiography • kidney transplantation • asymptomatic coronary artery disease • prognosis


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