NCT00850473

PET/CT Study in the Diagnosis of Coronary Plaque

Comparison of Cardiac Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography (PET/CT) With Coronary Angiography (CA) and Intravascular Ultrasound (IVUS) in the Diagnosis and Characterization of Coronary Artery Plaque

• Status: Terminated
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 3 (actual)
• Sponsor: Washington University School of Medicine · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study is being done to determine if a picture taking test of the heart, positron emission tomography/computed tomography (or cardiac PET/CT), can identify the blockages in the heart arteries that lead to heart attacks when compared to the standard of heart catheterization.

Detailed description

Heart catheterization, in which a thin plastic tube, or catheter, is placed into an artery in the arm or leg and advanced into the heart arteries, is the procedure that you and your doctor have decided to pursue to look for heart artery blockages. It is being performed as part of your standard care and not for research purposes. The research procedure (cardiac PET/CT), which will be performed at a later date is a combination of heart CT (a test that involves the use of x-rays to identify heart artery blockages) and heart PET (an imaging test that uses a radioactive drug to look at how the heart uses fuel (sugar and fats) These tests will be combined (PET/CT) to look for the presence and type of blockage in your heart arteries. It is important to develop a test that can determine if and what type of blockage you have in your heart arteries as the presence and type of heart artery blockage is a very important predictor of heart attack and death from heart attack.

Conditions

• Myocardial Infarction
• Coronary Artery Disease
• Cardiac Catheterization

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DIAGNOSTIC_TEST	PET/CT	Patient will have one imaging modality - a Positron Emitting Tomography CT which includes F-18 FDG and heparin/intralipid infusion and Contrast Dye.

Timeline

• Start date: 2007-10-01
• Primary completion: 2009-09-01
• Completion: 2009-09-01
• First posted: 2009-02-25
• Last updated: 2018-08-29
• Results posted: 2018-08-29

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States