TABLE 2

Baseline and 2-Year Follow-up 11C-HED PET Left Ventricle Sympathetic Cardiac Denervation in 23 Patients with IPD

VariableBaseline2-y follow-upMatched-paired Student t test
Global LV (mL of blood/min/mL of tissue)0.0481 ± 0.02180.0432 ± 0.02203.509 (P = 0.001)
Percentage LV extent (%)59.266.1−2.198 (P = 0.0194)
Z-severity LV−2.44−2.520.8007 (P = not significant)
Percentage left circumflex extent (%)66.069.6−2.2218 (P = 0.0184)
Percentage left anterior descending extent (%)56.265.0−2.3940 (P = 0.0128)
Percentage right coronary artery extent (%)61.765.7−1.3490 (P = 0.0955, not significant)
Global LV SEP−194.6−226.62.944 (P = 0.003)
  • Data in parentheses are significance levels.