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Dipyridamole-echocardiography test in the diagnosis of vasomotor angina

Baldini, U.; Dini, F.L.; Marchetti, M.; Micheli, G.; Magini, G.

Giornale Italiano di Cardiologia 27(11): 1169-1173

1997

ISSN/ISBN: 0046-5968
PMID: 9463061
Document Number: 474452
Dipyridamole-atropine echocardiography testing is used extensively for the diagnosis of coronary artery disease and it is highly effective in diagnosing "organic" coronary artery disease by inducing myocardial ischemia via three different mechanisms: maximal coronary artery vasodilatation with phoenomena of flow-maldistribution caused by dipyridamole, increase in myocardial oxygen consumption and reduction of the oxygen supply to the myocardium caused by atropine. Moreover, the abrupt withdrawal of the coronary artery vasodilatation caused by aminophylline, which is routinely infused at the end of the test, may trigger coronary artery spasms in patients with variant angina, thus enhancing the diagnostic power of the test. We report two clinical cases of patients with rest angina and angiographically normal coronary arteries, in whom coronary artery spasm was induced by administering aminophylline during the stress test.

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