1129 IMAGING STRESS TEST OR CORONARY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY PRIOR TO NON-CARDIAC SURGERY? A SEVEN YEARS SINGLE CENTRE EXPERIENCE


 
 
 Recent published ESC guidelines on non-cardiac surgery suggest the use of imaging stress test in patients with poor functional capacity and high likelihood of coronary artery disease or high clinical risk (class I, level B), while the use of coronary computed tomography has lower evidence (class IIa, level B). Witch test has the best performance in the clinical contest of pre-operative risk assessment is a matter of debate.
 
 
 
 The aim of our single centre, retrospective study was to compare the prognostic role of the three main cardiac imaging modalities (CCT: Cardiac computed tomography, sCMR: stress cardiac magnetic resonance, SPECT MPI:single photon emission computed tomography myocardial perfusion imaging) in relation to 30 days post-surgery cardiac events (composite endpoint of myocardial infarction, unstable angina, cardiac death, cardiogenic shock, pulmonary oedema, life threatening cardiac arrythmias).
 
 
 
 Clinical data of patients from January 2015 to December 2021 were retrospectively collected from review of electronical medical records. Recorded data included demographic characteristics, clinical risk factors, results from laboratory tests, results from cardiac imaging tests, pharmacological therapy, type of intervention, cardiac complication within 30 days after surgery.
 
 
 
 Eight-hundred eighty-three patients were included (287 sCMR, 382 SPECT-MPI, 214 CCT). Rate of 30-days myocardial infarction was not significantly different between different modalities (CMR 1.1%, SPECT 1.3%; CT 0.5%; CMR vs SPECT p 0.998; sCMR vs CT p 0.639; SPECT vs CT 0.427); while planned invasive coronary angiography (ICA) was more common in CT group (CT 34%, CMR 16%, SPECT 10%, p<0,001). Absence of ischemia on stress test and absence of relevant coronary artery disease on CT are associate to lower cardiac events at follow-up (0.67%).
 
 
 
 The use of imaging stress test and coronary CT are both associated to low incidence of cardiac events and should be recommended in risk assessment before non-cardiac surgery, in the appropriate clinical context.
