Asystole Induced by Dipyridamole Stress for Thallium-201 Myocardial Perfusion Imaging
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Received 6/13/2002; revised 7/19/2002; accepted 7/24/2002. For correspondence or reprints contact: Por-Jau Huang, M.D., Department of Nuclear Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, 7 Chung-Shan South Road, Taipei 100, Taiwan, R.O.C. Tel: (886)2-23123456 ext. 5031, Fax: (886)223957855, E-mail: [email protected] An 86-year-old man without documented coronary artery disease or conduction abnormalities at rest developed an episode of asystole following intravenous infusion of dipyridamole for Tl myocardial perfusion imaging and was reversed promptly after aminophylline injection. We reviewed the literature regarding the safety of this procedure and stressed the importance of close monitoring during the study, especially in patients receiving beta blockers, negative chronotropic or dromotropic agents.
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