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Effect of Coronary Stenosis on Adjacent Bed Flow Reserve

Author(s) -

John J. Pacella,

Flordeliza S. Villanueva

Publication year - 2006

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/circulationaha.106.641779

Subject(s) - medicine , stenosis , reactive hyperemia , cardiology , circumflex , blood flow , coronary flow reserve , coronary circulation , microsphere , hemodynamics , fractional flow reserve , artery , coronary angiography , myocardial infarction , chemical engineering , engineering

During coronary stenosis, flow reserve in the adjacent nonstenotic bed decreases, but the microvascular mechanisms are unknown. Because myocardial contrast echocardiography (MCE) assesses microvascular physiology, we used it to relate flow reserve to intramyocardial blood volume in the adjacent bed.

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