Open AccessCoronary Reserve of High- and Low-Flow Regions in the Dog Heart Left Ventricle
Author(s) -
Robert Loncar,
Christian W. Flesche,
Andreas Deußen
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
circulation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 7.795
H-Index - 607
eISSN - 1524-4539
pISSN - 0009-7322
DOI - 10.1161/01.cir.98.3.262
Subject(s) - medicine , blood flow , ventricle , coronary circulation , cardiology , hemodynamics , coronary flow reserve , constriction
Left ventricular myocardial blood flow is spatially heterogeneous. The hypothesis we tested was whether myocardial areas with a steady-state flow <0.5 times mean flow are underperfused and areas with flow > 1.5 times mean flow are overperfused.
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