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Dobutamine stress echocardiography can cause rare but potentially life-threatening cerebrovascular accidents, including intracranial and subarachnoid hemorrhage.
Dobutamine stress echocardiography can rarely cause life-threatening cerebrovascular complications including intracranial and subarachnoid hemorrhage.
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Rare hemorrhagic complications may occur during dobutamine stress echocardiography; this case leaves open questions on true incidence and risk factors.
Dobutamine stress echocardiogram (DSE) is routinely used in the clinical assessment of patients with known or suspected coronary artery disease (CAD). DSE can cause serious complications including cerebrovascular accident (CVA). Even though the incidence of CVA associated with DSE is very low (<0.01%), it can be lifethreatening or cause significant morbidity. We present a patient who developed acute multifocal intracranial hemorrhage (ICH) and subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) during the DSE.
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Ghafoor et al. (2021) studied this question.
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