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Ann Cardiol Angeiol (Paris)
; 56(5): 208-10, 2007 Nov.
Artículo
en Francés
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-17931591
RESUMEN
Acute myocardial infarction is a rare complication of dobutamine stress echocardiography (DSE). We report the case of a 60-year-old man with moderate apical sequela of a myocardial infarction (MI) which had an inferior MI complicated with cardiogenic shock and circulatory arrest two hours after a positive DSE in that very circulatory topography. Emergency coronarography objectivizes a dissection of the circumflex artery. The patient required a circulatory assistance device. He survived the episode and left the hospital with 50% left ventricular ejection fraction.