Dobutamine-induced Stress Altered Cerebral Blood Flow in Healthy Adults: a 3D Pseudocontinuous Arterial Spin Labeling Study

It is not fully known whether dobutamine commonly clinically used in echocardiography and short-term treatment of congestive heart failure has effect on brain microcirculatory behavior. In this study, we sought to investigate the effect of dobutamine on cerebral haemodynamics in healthy volunteers. The results showed that dobutamine-induced stress significantly decreased the CBF in the anterior circulation, mainly in frontal lobe. Furthermore, volunteers with high BMI, large BA diameter and low SBP during dobutamine stress test are more likely to have stress-induced decrease of CBF.