Prevalence and potential mechanisms of sustained ventricular arrhythmias during dobutamine stress echocardiography: a literature review

J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2008 Dec;21(12):1376-81. doi: 10.1016/j.echo.2008.09.015.

Abstract

Sustained ventricular tachycardia during dobutamine stress echocardiography is a rare complication of dobutamine stress echocardiography. It may be related to reduced left ventricular function and prior myocardial infarction but cannot be used as a sensitive or specific sign for myocardial ischemia. The clinical significance of dobutamine stress echocardiography-induced sustained ventricular tachycardia is uncertain, and this condition probably does not represent an adverse prognostic sign.

Publication types

  • Meta-Analysis
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Cardiotonic Agents
  • Dobutamine*
  • Echocardiography / mortality*
  • Exercise Test / mortality*
  • Humans
  • Prevalence
  • Risk Assessment / methods*
  • Risk Factors
  • Survival Analysis
  • Survival Rate
  • Ventricular Fibrillation / diagnostic imaging*
  • Ventricular Fibrillation / mortality*

Substances

  • Cardiotonic Agents
  • Dobutamine