title: Regional and global biventricular function during dipyridamole stress testing.
abstract: This study assesses the relation between regional ventricular performance (using 2-dimensional echocardiography) and global systolic and diastolic indexes of biventricular myocardial function (using hemodynamic monitoring) during dipyridamole stress testing. Simultaneous 2-dimensional echocardiographic and biventricular hemodynamic monitoring during dipyridamole infusion (0.56 mg/kg over 4 minutes) was performed in 19 patients. All patients had a normal resting function. Eleven of the 19 patients had a positive echocardiography test (new wall motion dyssynergy with dipyridamole) and they formed group 1. Eight patients had a negative echocardiography test (group 2). During baseline conditions, no significant differences were found in the 2 groups: rate pressure product (107 +/- 16 vs 108 +/- 13 mm Hg x beats/min x 1/100), positive left ventricular (LV) dP/dt (1,950 +/- 473 vs 2,262 +/- 430 mm Hg/s), negative LV dP/dt (-2,069 +/- 620 vs -2,205 +/- 245), LV end-diastolic pressure (8.2 +/- 4.4 vs 9.6 +/- 4.0 mm Hg), right ventricular positive dP/dt (368 +/- 133 vs 400 +/- 190 mm Hg/s) and negative dP/dt (-281 +/- 89 vs -383 +/- 147). At peak dipyridamole, the 2 groups were different for LV end-diastolic pressure (20 +/- 10 vs 8 +/- 5 mm Hg, p less than 0.01), LV positive dP/dt (2,100 +/- 688 vs 3,013 +/- 851 mm Hg/s, p less than 0.01) and negative dP/dt (-1,868 +/- 518 vs -2,564 +/- 272, p less than 0.01). At peak ischemia, LV positive dP/dt increased slightly, but not significantly, while negative dP/dt decreased significantly (p less than 0.01) in comparison with resting values.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
authors.affiliation: Institute of Clinical Physiology and Patologia Medica, University of Pisa, Italy.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Picano
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Simonetti
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Carpeggiani
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Lattanzi
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Macerata
authors.forename: M G
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Trivella
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Marzilli
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: L'Abbate
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology; D004176:Dipyridamole; D004452:Echocardiography; D005260:Female; D006321:Heart / Q000187:drug effects; D006439:Hemodynamics / Q000187:drug effects*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged
chemical_list: D004176:Dipyridamole