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SUBMITTER: Piccione MC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5224666 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct-Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Piccione Maurizio Cusmà MC Zito Concetta C Trio Olimpia O Oteri Alessandra A D'Angelo Myriam M Andò Giuseppe G
Journal of cardiovascular echography 20161001 4
A 60-year-old male patient was submitted to dipyridamole-atropine stress echocardiography (DSE) for chest pain during exertion. At rest, no electrocardiographic (ECG) and transthoracic echocardiographic (TTE) abnormalities were observed. After dipyridamole infusion, the patient complained a mild chest discomfort, without ECG changes and TTE wall-motion abnormalities. Subsequently, worsening of the anginal symptoms combined with descending ST-depression and T-negative waves occurred after atropin ...[more]