Why the study?
Does pharmacologic vasodilation with dipyridamole serve as an alternative to exercise stress during limb perfusion imaging for assessing peripheral artery disease?
Population
18 subjects (9 control subjects and 9 patients with moderate to severe peripheral artery disease)
Comparison
Pharmacologic vasodilation with dipyridamole… vs Modest plantar flexion exercise during CEU…
Design
Cross-sectional
Authors
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Contractile exercise, but not dipyridamole vasodilator stress, effectively reveals microvascular blood flow impairment in peripheral artery disease during contrast-enhanced ultrasound.
Does pharmacologic vasodilation with dipyridamole serve as an alternative to exercise stress during limb perfusion imaging for assessing peripheral artery disease?
Contractile exercise, but not dipyridamole vasodilator stress, effectively reveals microvascular blood flow impairment in peripheral artery disease during contrast-enhanced ultrasound.
Davidson et al. (2017) studied this question.
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