Frankfurt, March 10, 2020: For the second time within a short period of time, a clinical study has come to the conclusion that Cardisiography achieves comparable results in the detection of coronary heart disease (CHD) as the current gold standard, coronary angiography.
The team led by Dr. Temirlan Erkenov from the Department of Cardiac Surgery at SANA Heart Center in Cottbus, Germany, concluded that: “… Cardisiography is a simple, precise and highly valid method that is suitable as a non-invasive diagnostic modality for the initial assessment of stable CHD in a clinical setting…” (Cardisiography as a novel non-invasive diagnostic tool for the detection of coronary artery disease at rest – a first prospective study of diagnostic accuracy; Temirlan Erkenov, Tomasz Stankowski, Oliver Grimmig, Sören Just, Prof. Oleg Remizov, Prof. Dirk Fritsche)
The study included data from 106 patients in whom coronary angiography was indicated and performed. Subsequently, Cardisiography was performed, the result of which was blindly correlated with that of coronary angiography. The result: In a total of 86 of the 106 patients, vascular disease was confirmed by coronary angiography. Cardisiography identified 82 of the 86 cases (95.4 percent), while conventional echocardiography detected only 12 cases. This results in a sensitivity of 95.4 percent for Cardisiography, a specificity of 90 percent and a positive predictive value of 97.6 percent for CHD.
“In Western countries, coronary heart disease is one of the leading causes of death and a common cause of physical disability. The reason for the severe course is the fact that the initial manifestation of the disease can be a heart attack or sudden cardiac death. Cardisiography is a new, easy-to-use and examiner-independent technology that uses vector cardiography with the modern analysis possibilities of artificial intelligence,” the authors explain the reason for conducting the study – and for its convincing course.
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