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Usefulness of the Dipyridamole-Doppler Test for Diagnosis of Coronary Artery Disease Luciano Agati, MD, Luciano Arata, MD, Carlo Peraldo Neja, MD, Carla Manzara, MD, Carlo lacoboni, MD, Carmine D. Vizza, MD, Maria Pence, MD, Francesco Fedele, MD, and Armando Dagianti, MD Two-dimensional and Doppler echocardiigraphic studies and a hemodynamic investigation were performed during dipyridamole testing in 42 subjects (13 control subjects and 23 patients with coronary artery disease [CAD]), to evaluate the ability of dipyridamole Doppler echocardlography in identitying patients with ischemic left ventrkular dysfunction. In the control group, after dipyridamole indon, Doppler-derived parameters imzeased significantiy from baseline (p