BACKGROUND: Combining low-level treadmill exercise with adenosine infusion may result in fewer bradyarrhythmic complications by increasing sympathetic tone and may improve myocardial perfusion image quality by decreasing background activity. METHODS:Patients referred for outpatient pharmacologic stress myocardial perfusion imaging performedsimultaneous treadmill exercise (mean 2.2 metabolic equivalents) throughout 6-minute adenosine infusion (adenosine-exercise n = 507). Patients unable to exercise and those with left bundle branch block received adenosine infusion alone (adenosine-nonexercise n = 286). Adverse reaction data were collected on all patients and compared by sex. Background-to-target activity was calculated in a blinded fashion on 200 randomly selected patients. RESULTS: During the period from April 1996 to December 1998, 507 patients (64%) underwent adenosine-exercise testing, whereas 286 (36%) underwent adenosine-nonexercise testing. Hypotensive and arrhythmic (atrioventricular block, sinus bradycardia, and new onset atrial fibrillation or flutter) adverse reactions occurred less often during adenosine-exercise than during adenosine-nonexercise. Neither death nor myocardial infarction occurred in either group. In the adenosine-exercise group, 2.8% of patients experienced an adverse reaction versus 5.6% of the adenosine-nonexercise group (P = .04). The reduction in adverse reactions occurred in both men and women, although women had significantly more adverse reactions than men (5.7% vs 1.8%, P = .004). Liver/heart and gut/heart ratios were lower in the adenosine-exercise group (1.05+/-0.42 vs. 1.21+/-0.55 , P = .01; 0.61+/-0.21 vs. 0.69+/-0.24, P = .03, respectively). CONCLUSIONS: Compared with adenosine infusion alone, combining low-level treadmill exercise with adenosine in outpatients is safe, better tolerated, and improves image quality. Women were more likely to experience adverse reactions than men.
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BACKGROUND: Combining low-level treadmill exercise with adenosine infusion may result in fewer bradyarrhythmic complications by increasing sympathetic tone and may improve myocardial perfusion image quality by decreasing background activity. METHODS:Patients referred for outpatient pharmacologic stress myocardial perfusion imaging performed simultaneous treadmill exercise (mean 2.2 metabolic equivalents) throughout 6-minute adenosine infusion (adenosine-exercise n = 507). Patients unable to exercise and those with left bundle branch block received adenosine infusion alone (adenosine-nonexercise n = 286). Adverse reaction data were collected on all patients and compared by sex. Background-to-target activity was calculated in a blinded fashion on 200 randomly selected patients. RESULTS: During the period from April 1996 to December 1998, 507 patients (64%) underwent adenosine-exercise testing, whereas 286 (36%) underwent adenosine-nonexercise testing. Hypotensive and arrhythmic (atrioventricular block, sinus bradycardia, and new onset atrial fibrillation or flutter) adverse reactions occurred less often during adenosine-exercise than during adenosine-nonexercise. Neither death nor myocardial infarction occurred in either group. In the adenosine-exercise group, 2.8% of patients experienced an adverse reaction versus 5.6% of the adenosine-nonexercise group (P = .04). The reduction in adverse reactions occurred in both men and women, although women had significantly more adverse reactions than men (5.7% vs 1.8%, P = .004). Liver/heart and gut/heart ratios were lower in the adenosine-exercise group (1.05+/-0.42 vs. 1.21+/-0.55 , P = .01; 0.61+/-0.21 vs. 0.69+/-0.24, P = .03, respectively). CONCLUSIONS: Compared with adenosine infusion alone, combining low-level treadmill exercise with adenosine in outpatients is safe, better tolerated, and improves image quality. Women were more likely to experience adverse reactions than men.
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