A 60-year-old male patient was submitted to dipyridamole-atropine stress echocardiography (DSE) for chest pain during exertion. At rest, no electrocardiographic (ECG) and transthoracic echocardiographic (TTE) abnormalities were observed. After dipyridamole infusion, the patient complained a mild chest discomfort, without ECG changes and TTE wall-motion abnormalities. Subsequently, worsening of the anginal symptoms combined with descending ST-depression and T-negative waves occurred after atropine and unexpectedly, aminophylline administration. Coronary angiography was performed showing a myocardial bridge (MB) of the left anterior descending artery. The occurrence, during DSE, of worsening ischemic abnormalities after atropine and aminophylline administration may be a particular diagnostic feature of MB.
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