title: [The echo-dipyridamole test early after acute myocardial infarct: echocardiographic aspects and angiographic correlations].
abstract: To assess whether the different mechanical effects of intravenous dipyridamole were correlated with the location and distribution of the coronary arteries stenosis, 98 patients underwent high dose DET 8-10 days after an acute myocardial infarction. Left ventricular regional wall segments were identified in multiple views; a vascular territory was assigned to each coronary vessel. DET was positive in 68.4% of the patients (67/93), 59% (23/39) of those with single vessel disease, and 81% (44/54) of those with multivessel disease. Four different mechanical patterns of positivity of DET were observed: 1) marked worsening of wall motion in the same region showing asynergy (type I); 2) development of new wall motion abnormality adjacent to the infarct zone and located in the same vascular region (type II); 3) development of new wall motion abnormality adjacent to the infarct zone, but located in a different vascular region (type III); 4) development of transient remote asynergy (that is, a new wall motion abnormality in a region normal at rest and not directly adjacent to the infarct zone, type IV). Types I and II (asynergies in the infarct zone coronary bed) were found in patients both with single vessel disease or multivessel disease; by contrast, type III and IV were almost exclusively found in patients with multivessel disease (24/54 and 14/54 respectively) and occasionally in patients with single vessel disease (2/39 and 1/39 respectively). Thus, these two mechanical behaviours during dipyridamole infusion showed to be highly specific for predicting multivessel disease (95% and 97% respectively, sensitivity 44% and 26% respectively).(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
authors.affiliation: Divisione di Cardiologia, Ospedale Maggiore della Carità, Novara.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Sarasso
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Bolognese
authors.forename: A S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Bongo
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Aralda
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Rossi
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Piccinino
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Francalacci
authors.forename: M E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Prando
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Rossi
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000792:Angiography; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D004176:Dipyridamole; D004452:Echocardiography; D004562:Electrocardiography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000175:diagnosis*; D011379:Prognosis; D013997:Time Factors
chemical_list: D004176:Dipyridamole
vernacular_title: Il test eco-dipiridamolo subito dopo infarto miocardico acuto: aspetti ecocardiografici e correlazioni angiografiche.