Relative role of coronary stenosis severity and morphology in determining pharmacologic stress echo positivity

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 166-171

  Varga, Albert ^a   Picano, Eugenio ^b   Sicari, Rosa ^b   Gliozheni, Enri ^b   Palmieri, Cataldo ^b   Marzilli, Mario ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; DIPYRIDAMOLE; DOBUTAMINE;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS;

ADULT; CARDIOTONIC AGENTS; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY DISEASE; DIPYRIDAMOLE; DOBUTAMINE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 0032527939     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(98)00309-9     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. 1. Picano E. Stress echocardiography. From pathophysiological to diagnostic tool. Circulation 1992;85:1604-1612.
2. 2. Pingitore A, Picano E, Quarta Colosso M, Reisenhofer B, Gigli G, Lucarini A, Petix N, Previtali M, Bigi R, Chiarandà G, Minardi G, de Alcantara M, Lowenstein J, Sclavo MG, Palmieri C, Galati A, Heyman J, Mathias W, Casazza F, Sicari R, Raciti M, Landi P, Marzilli M, on behalf of the Echo Persantine (EPIC) and Echo Dobutamine International Cooperative (EDIC) study groups. The atropine factor in pharmacological stress echocardiography. J Am Coll Cardiol 1996;27:1164-1170.
3. 3. Picano E. Dipyridamole-echocardiography test: the historical background and the physiologic basis. Eur Heart J 1989;10:365-376.
4. 4. Ryan T. Dobutamine stress echocardiography. Coron Artery Dis 1991;2:552-558.
5. 5. Lu C, Picano E, Pingitore A, Sicari R, Tongiani R, Baratto M, Palmieri C, Marzilli M, L'Abbate A. Complex artery coronary lesion morphology influences results of stress echocardiography. Circulation 1995;91:1669-1675.
6. 6. Heyman J, Salvade P, Picano E, Varga A, Gliozheni E, Sicari R, Previtali M, Rovelli G, on behalf of the EDIC (Echo Dobutamine International Cooperative) study group. The elusive link between coronary lesion morphology and dobutamine stress echocardiography results. Int J Card Imaging 1997;13:395-401.
7. 7. Ambrose JA, Israel DH. Angiography in unstable angina. Am J Cardiol 68:78B-84B.
8. 8. Picano E, Lattanzi F, Masini M, Distante A, L'Abbate A. High dose of dipyridamole echocardiography test in effort angina pectoris. J Am Coll Cardiol 1986;8:848-854.
9. 9. McNeill AJ, Fioretti PM, El-Said EM, Salustri A, de Feyter PJ, Roelandt JR. Enhanced sensitivity for detection of coronary artery disease by addition of atropine to dobutamine stress echocardiography. Am J Cardiol 1992;70:41-46.
10. 10. Picano E, Lattanzi F, Orlandini A, Marini C, L'Abbate A. Stress echocardiography and the human factor: the importance of being expert. J Am Coll Cardiol 1991;17:666-669.
11. 11. Schiller NB, Shah PM, Crawford M, DeMaria A, Devereux R, Feigenbaum H, Gutgesell H, Reichek N, Sahn D, Schnittger I, Silverman AH, Tajik AJ. Recommendations for quantitation of the left ventricle by two-dimensional echocardiography. J Am Soc Echocardiogr 1989;2:358-367.
12. 12. Feigenbaum H. Echocardiography and coronary artery disease. Int J Card Imaging 1993;9(suppl 2):55-67.
13. 13. Fuster V, Badimon L, Badimon JJ, Chesebro JH. The pathogenesis of coronary artery disease and the acute coronary syndromes I-II. N Engl J Med 1992;326:242-250, 310-318.
14. 14. Fuster V, Badimon L, Cohen M, Ambrose JA, Badimon JJ, Chesebro JH. Insight into the pathogenesis of acute ischemic syndromes. Circulation 1988;77: 1213-20.
15. 15. Brown BG, Bolson EL, Dodge HT. Dynamic mechanisms in human coronary stenosis. Circulation 1984;70:917-922.
16. 16. Tousoulis D, Davres G, McFadden E, Clarke J, Kaski JC, Maseri A. Coronary vasomotor effects of serotonin in patients with angina. Relation to coronary stenosis morphology. Circulation 1993;88:1518-1526.
17. 17. Zhang J, Path G, Chepuri V, Homans DC, Merkle H, Hendrich K, Ugurbil K, Bache RJ. Effects of dobutamine on myocardial blood flow, contractile function, and bioenergetic responses distal to coronary stenosis: implications with regard to dobutamine stress testing. Am Heart J 1995;129:330-342.
18. 18. Ambrose JA, Winters SL, Arora RR, Haft JI, Goldstein J, Rentrop KP, Gorlin R, Fuster V. Coronary angiographic morphology in myocardial infarction: a link between the pathogenesis of unstable angina and myocardial infarction. J Am Coll Cardiol 1985;6:1233-1238.
19. 19. Martin TW, Seaworth JF, Johns JP, Pupa LE, Condos WR. Comparison of adenosine, dipyridamole and dobutamine in stress echocardiography. Ann Intern Med 1992;116:190-196.
20. 20. Previtali M, Lanzarini L, Fetiveau R, Poli A, Ferrario M, Falcone C, Mussini A. Comparison of dobutamine stress echocardiography, dipyridamole stress echocardiography and exercise stress testing for diagnosis of coronary artery disease. Am J Cardiol 1993;72:865-870.
21. 21. Salustri A, Fioretti PM, McNeill AJ, Pozzoli MMA, Roelandt JRTC. Pharmacological stress echocardiography in the diagnosis of coronary artery disease and myocardial ischemia: a comparison between dobutamine and dipyridamole. Eur Heart J 1992;13:1356-1362.
22. 22. Dagianti A, Penco M, Agati L, Sciomer S, Dagianti A, Rosanio S, Fedele F. Stress echocardiography: comparison of exercise, dipyridamole and dobutamine in detecting and predicting the extent of coronary artery disease. J Am Coll Cardiol 1995;26:18-25.
23. 23. Beleslin BD, Ostojic M, Stepanovic J, Djordjevic-Dikic A, Stojkovic S, Babic R, Nedeljkovic M, Stankovic G, Petrasinovic Z, Gojkovic L, Vasiljevic-Pokajcic Z. Stress echocardiography in the diagnosis of ischemic heart disease: head-to-head comparison between exercise, dobutamine and dipyridamole tests. Circulation 1994;90:1168-1176.
24. 24. Sochowski RA, Yvorchuk KJ, Yang Y, Rattes MR, Chan KL. Dobutamine and dipyridamole stress echocardiography in patients with a low incidence of severe coronary artery disease. J Am Soc Echocardiogr 1995;8:482-487.
25. 25. Gruber N, Varga A, Forster T, Varga L, Borthaiser A, Csanady M. Comparative evaluation of dipyridamole and dobutamine two-dimensional echocardiography in ischemic heart disease. Orv Hetil 1994;135:67-70.
26. 26. San Roman JA, Villacosta I, Castillo JA. Dipyridamole and dobutamine-atropine stress echocardiography in the diagnosis of coronary artery disease. Comparison with exercise stress test, analysis of agreement and impact on antianginal treatment. Chest 1996;110:1248-1254.
27. 27. Schroeder K, Voller H, Dingerkus H, Munzenberg H, Dissmann R, Linderer T, Schultheiss HP. Comparison of diagnostic potential of four echocardiographic stress shortly after acute myocardial infarction: submaximal exercise, transesophageal atrial pacing, dipyridamole and dobutamine atropine. Am J Cardiol 1996; 77:909-914.
28. 28. Schroeder K, Wieckhorst A, Voller H. Head-to-head comparison of the prognostic value of dipyridamole-and dobutamine-stress echocardiography. Am J Cardiol 1997;79:1516-1518.
29. 29. Minardi G, Di Segni M, Manzara CC, Pulignano G, Chiantera A, De Santis F, Armiento G, Vajola FS, Giovannini E. Diagnostic and prognostic value of dipyridamole and dobutamine stress echocardiography in patients with acute myocardial infarction. Am J Cardiol 1997;80:847-851.
30. 30. Picano E. Stress Echocardiography, 3rd ed. Heidelberg: Springer Verlag, 1997.