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Abdi M, Karimi A, Navidbakhsh M, Rahmati M, Hassani K. MODELING OF CORONARY ARTERY BALLOON-ANGIOPLASTY USING EQUIVALENT ELECTRICAL CIRCUIT. BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING: APPLICATIONS, BASIS AND COMMUNICATIONS 2014. [DOI: 10.4015/s1016237214500392] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Arterial thrombosis and atherosclerosis result in chronic total or partial occlusion of the coronary artery. Coronary artery disease (CAD) destroys some parts of the heart muscle tissue and is the leading cause of human deaths in the industrialized world. In this study, cardiovascular system is simulated by 42 compartments and then a coronary set (including artery, venous, myocardium and capillaries) is added to the model. Each vessel is modeled by three parameters, such as resistor, capacitor and inductor. These three parameters are variable with respect to the radius of the vessel. In this paper, first of all, aortic and coronary flow under healthy condition is studied. The obtained results are in complete agreement with experimental outcomes. Then cardiovascular system behavior in coronary artery stenosis condition is investigated. Finally, the effect of intra-coronary balloon pump on heart attack risk and also on stabilization of patient's emergency condition by mathematical simulation is analyzed. The results of modeling show that the balloon pumping of coronary artery is an advantageous way in rendering primary cure to patients. The proposed model, in addition, has implications for investigation of effects of different diseases on the cardiovascular system. It also has the potential to model different treatment methods on heart's performance and, as a result, recommend new methods in order to cure variant cardiovascular diseases.
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- Mohsen Abdi
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran 16844, Iran
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran 16844, Iran
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran 16844, Iran
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran 14987, Iran
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- Department of Biomechanics, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
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Wang H, Rasmussen K, Vik-Mo H, Mjøs OD, Grendahl H. Influence of high plasma concentrations of free-fatty acids on heart rhythm in healthy fasting men. ACTA MEDICA SCANDINAVICA 2009; 205:299-301. [PMID: 433669 DOI: 10.1111/j.0954-6820.1979.tb06051.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Ten healthy male student in regular sinus rhythm fasted for 66 hours. Their overnight fasting plasma concentration of free fatty acids (FFA) was 455 +/- 104 micro mol/1 (mean +/- S.E.M., n=7), the reference value of our laboratory, measured in another normal population of young men, being 344 +/- 28 micro mol/1 (n=10). After 42 and 66 hours of fasting, the plasma concentration of FFA rose to 1198 +/- 181 (p less than 0.01, n=10) and 1471 +/- 89 micro mol/1 (p less than 0.001, n=10), respectively. During the last 24 hours of fasting, the heart rate rhythm was monitored continuously by means of a Holter recorder and computer. No arrhythmias were observed, indicating that elevated plasma concentrations of FFA, exceeding those reported in patients with acute myocardial infarction, are well tolerated by the healthy human myocardium.
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Rose JB, Coe IR. Physiology of Nucleoside Transporters: Back to the Future. . . . Physiology (Bethesda) 2008; 23:41-8. [DOI: 10.1152/physiol.00036.2007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Nucleoside transporters (NTs) are integral membrane proteins responsible for mediating and facilitating the flux of nucleosides and nucleobases across cellular membranes. NTs are also responsible for the uptake of nucleoside analog drugs used in the treatment of cancer and viral infections, and they are the target of certain compounds used in the treatment of some types of cardiovascular disease. The important role of NTs as drug transporters and therapeutic targets has necessarily led to intense interest into their structure and function and the relationship between these proteins and drug efficacy. In contrast, we still know relatively little about the fundamental physiology of NTs. In this review, we discuss various aspects of the physiology of NTs in mammalian systems, particularly noting tissues and cells where there has been little recent research. Our central thesis is reference back to some of the older literature, combined with current findings, will provide direction for future research into NT physiology that will lead to a fuller understanding of the role of these intriguing proteins in the everyday lives of cells, tissues, organs, and whole animals.
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- Jennifer B. Rose
- Department of Biology, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada,
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- Department of Biology, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada,
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Harada K, Fukata Y, Miwa A, Kaneta S, Fukushima H, Ogawa N. Effect of KRN2391, a novel vasodilator, on various experimental anginal models in rats. JAPANESE JOURNAL OF PHARMACOLOGY 1993; 63:35-9. [PMID: 8271529 DOI: 10.1254/jjp.63.35] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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The antianginal effect of KRN2391, N-cyano-N'-(2-nitroxyethyl)-3-pyridinecarboximidamide monomethanesulfonate, on various anginal models in rats was compared with those of nifedipine and nicorandil. Angina pectoris was induced by methacholine or isoproterenol, and the change in the ST-segments in the electrocardiogram (ECG) was used as the parameter to indicate angina pectoris. The intracoronary administration of methacholine (3 micrograms) produced an elevation in the ST-segment of the ECG. This ST-elevation was inhibited by the intravenous administration of KRN2391 (30 and 100 micrograms/kg), nifedipine (100 and 300 micrograms/kg) and nicorandil (1000 and 3000 micrograms/kg). The administration of isoproterenol (10 micrograms/kg/min, i.v.) produced a depression of the ST-segment of the ECG. The intravenous administration of KRN2391 (100 micrograms/kg), nifedipine (100 micrograms/kg) and nicorandil (3000 micrograms/kg) inhibited the ECG changes induced by isoproterenol. These results suggest that KRN2391 exerts a potent protective effect on angina pectoris models compared with nifedipine and nicorandil. KRN2391 appears to be useful as an antianginal drug.
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- K Harada
- Pharmaceutical Research Laboratory, Kirin Brewery Co., Ltd., Gunma, Japan
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Krausz MM, Dennis RC, Utsunomiya T, Grindlinger GA, Vegas AM, Churchill WH, Mannick JA, Valeri CR, Hechtman HB. Cardiopulmonary function following transfusion of three red blood cell products in elective abdominal aortic aneurysmectomy. Ann Surg 1981; 194:616-24. [PMID: 7294931 PMCID: PMC1345267 DOI: 10.1097/00000658-198111000-00010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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In order to evaluate the importance of red cell O(2) affinity of transfused blood on cardiac performance and adverse effects of transfusion on lung function, a prospective double-blind protocol was used in 27 patients undergoing abdominal aortic aneurysmectomy. Three types of blood were administered: packed red cells (PC), washed red cells (WC) and high 2,3 DPG red cells (2,3 DPG). An average of 4.5 units of blood was used per patient. Transfusion of 2,3 DPG blood resulted in maintenance of in vivo P(50) during surgery and an increase to 31.2 torr after operation (p < 0.001). An intraoperative fall in in vivo P(50) to 23.2 +/- 2.0 torr was observed in patients who were transfused with PC (p < 0.001) and to 25.1 +/- 2.6 torr with WC (p < 0.005). A fall in body temperature averaging 2.2 C intraoperatively was noticed in all three groups. After operation, in vitro P(50) decreased in patients transfused with PC (p < 0.005) and WC (p < 0.005) while it remained unchanged in the high 2,3 DPG group. This was consistent with the decrease of red cell 2,3 DPG in the PC (p < 0.001) and WC groups (p < 0.01) and maintenance in the 2,3 DPG group. Left ventricular stroke work and volume loading Starling type myocardial performance curves were similar for the three groups. Microaggregates measured by Coulter counting and screen filtration pressure were the same for all three products in samples drawn on both sides of the 40 microm transfusion filter. There was no relationship of transfusion volumes or type of blood product to changes in lung function (physiologic shunting, dynamic compliance and pulmonary arterial pressure) in the three groups of patients. The false negative, beta, error of missing a true 25% difference was less than 10%. It is concluded that 2,3 DPG enriched red cells improved oxygen availability, but that a 4.5 unit transfusion of any of the three blood products did not influence lung function or myocardial performance following aneurysmectomy.
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Sakai K, Akima M, Aono J. Evaluation of drug effects in a new experimental model of angina pectoris in the intact anesthetized rat. JOURNAL OF PHARMACOLOGICAL METHODS 1981; 5:325-36. [PMID: 7311571 DOI: 10.1016/0160-5402(81)90045-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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The effects of elevated red blood cell 2,3-diphosphoglycerate concentration on myocardial oxygenation and metabolism during cardiopulmonary bypass. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1980. [DOI: 10.1016/s0022-5223(19)37893-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Leppo JA, Scheuer J, Pohost GM, Freeman LM, Strauss HW. The evaluation of ischemic heart disease thallium-210 with comments on radionuclide angiography. Semin Nucl Med 1980; 10:115-26. [PMID: 6994233 DOI: 10.1016/s0001-2998(80)80015-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Coronary artery disease causing myocardial ischemia and infarction is the leading cause of death in America. Methods that can be used to diagnose and follow the response to therapy of coronary artery disease or its effect on myocardial ischemia should help control the morbidity and mortality of ischemic heart disease. The use of ECG monitoring is less sensitive and specific for ischemia than thallium (TI) imaging or the use of radionuclide angiography (RNA). In large patient populations, the findings of a positive ECG and TI or RNA study will be highly predictive for the presence of coronary artery disease, while negative test results make the disease unlikely. A combined approach to the patient with possible ischemic heart disease is presented.
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Foley DH, Amsterdam EA, Mason DT. Interactions of vasoactive effects of adenosine and potassium ion on isolated feline coronary artery smooth muscle. Circ Res 1979; 44:207-15. [PMID: 761304 DOI: 10.1161/01.res.44.2.207] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Gavras H, Faxon DP, Berkoben J, Brunner HR, Ryan TJ. Angiotensin converting enzyme inhibition in patients with congestive heart failure. Circulation 1978; 58:770-6. [PMID: 699246 DOI: 10.1161/01.cir.58.5.770] [Citation(s) in RCA: 178] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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The etiology of afterload elevation in congestive cardiac failure is unclear, but experimental evidence suggests a role for the renin-angiotensin system in maintaining elevated peripheral vascular resistance. The angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor SQ20,881 was administered to eight patients with congestive cardiac failure (four hypertensives, four normotensives) during or one day after diagnostic cardiac catheterization. Various hemodynamic measurements performed before and during blockade indicate that this agent caused improvement in cardiac function in all patients by decreasing afterload. This improvement correlated with the decrease in total vascular resistance but was independent of the baseline blood pressure and plasma renin activity. These results suggest that inhibition of angiotensin converting enzyme is a worthwhile approach to the treatment of congestive heart failure, although its exact mechanism of action remains unclear.
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Bloor CM. Graded coronary stenosis and coronary flow during acute normovolemic anemia. Invited commentary. World J Surg 1978; 2:651-2. [PMID: 741777 DOI: 10.1007/bf01556069] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Hall RE, Sybers HD, Greenhoot JH, Bloor CM. Myocardial alterations following hypothalamic stimulation in the intact conscious dog. Am Heart J 1974; 88:770-6. [PMID: 4417832 DOI: 10.1016/0002-8703(74)90288-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Lichtlen P, Halter J, Gattiker K. The effect of isosorbiddinitrate on coronary blood flow, coronary resistance and left ventricular dynamics under exercise in patients with coronary artery disease. Basic Res Cardiol 1974; 69:402-21. [PMID: 4441336 DOI: 10.1007/bf01905944] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Linhart JW. Atrial pacing in coronary artery disease, including preinfarction angina and postoperative studies. Am J Cardiol 1972; 30:603-10. [PMID: 4538844 DOI: 10.1016/0002-9149(72)90596-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Chiong MA, West RO, Parker JO. Influence of nitroglycerin on myocardial metabolism and hemodynamics during angina induced by atrial pacing. Circulation 1972; 45:1044-56. [PMID: 4623192 DOI: 10.1161/01.cir.45.5.1044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Myocardial lactate extraction, arterial-coronary sinus difference (A-CS) of potassium (K
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), hemodynamics, and S-T segments were studied in 15 patients with coronary artery disease who developed angina during atrial pacing. The study consisted of the following periods: control (C
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, mean lactate extraction, S-T segments, and left ventricular end-diastolic pressure (LVEDP) were normal, and there was no myocardial K
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loss were abolished, S-T segments became less depressed (0.8 mm), and mean LVEDP decreased during pacing, rising only to 11.4 mm Hg when pacing was discontinued. Myocardial lactate production reverted to extraction in two patients and decreased in another two, whereas seven patients showed a decreased K
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loss or uptake. It is concluded that GTN may prevent or reduce pacing-induced angina, as well as improve the electrocardiogram and hemodynamics, and in some patients decrease myocardial anaerobiosis.
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Cannon PJ, Dell RB, Dwyer EM. Measurement of regional myocardial perfusion in man with 133 xenon and a scintillation camera. J Clin Invest 1972; 51:964-77. [PMID: 5014620 PMCID: PMC302210 DOI: 10.1172/jci106891] [Citation(s) in RCA: 107] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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A method was devised to quantitate regional capillary perfusion in the human heart by measuring the clearance constants (k) of Xenon-133 washout from multiple areas of the myocardium with a multiple-crystal scintillation camera. In 17 subjects, (133)Xe was injected into the right or left coronary artery or both and counts per second (cps) were recorded simultaneously on magnetic tape from each of 294 scintillation crystals viewing the precordium through a multichannel collimator. Data were processed by a digital computer. Crystals detecting the myocardial washout of (133)Xe were distinguished from those monitoring pulmonary excretion by positioning radioactive markers at the cardiac margins, and by a computer printout of the peak cps recorded by each crystal and its time after isotope injection into the coronary artery. The slopes of the initial segment of the multiple (133)Xe curves obtained in each study were calculated by the method of least squares using a monoexponential model. Myocardial blood flow rates in the cardiac regions viewed by the individual crystals were calculated (assuming a blood to myocardium partition coefficient of 0.72) along with the SD of every flow measurement. The pattern of myocardial perfusion rates so obtained was superimposed over a tracing of the subject's coronary arteriogram. Scintiphotographs showing the arrival and washout of isotope from various regions of myocardium and the area of tissue perfused by each coronary artery were obtained by replaying the data tape on an oscilloscope. Significant regional variations in local myocardial perfusion rates were observed in hearts with normal coronary arteries. When capillary flow measurements from crystals overlying the various cardiac chambers were averaged in each subject, the mean myocardial blood flow rate of the left ventricle in 17 patients, 64.1 +/-13.9 (SD) ml/100 g.min, significantly exceeded that of the right ventricle, 47.8 +/-10.9 ml/100 g.min, and of the right atrial region, 33.6 +/-10.3 ml/100 g.min. The approach may facilitate more objective assessment of: myocardial capillary perfusion in patients with angina pactoris, the pharmacology of antianginal drugs, and the efficacy of surgical procedures to revascularize ischemic myocardium.
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Cannon PJ, Dell RB, Dwyer EM. Regional myocardial perfusion rates in patient with coronary artery disease. J Clin Invest 1972; 51:978-94. [PMID: 5062613 PMCID: PMC302211 DOI: 10.1172/jci106892] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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Regional myocardial perfusion rates were estimated from the myocardial washout of (133)Xenon in 24 patients with heart disease whose coronary arteriograms were abnormal and 17 similar subjects whose coronary arteriograms were judged to be normal. Disappearance rates of (133)Xe from multiple areas of the heart were monitored externally with a multiple-crystal scintillation camera after the isotope had been injected into a coronary artery and local myocardial perfusion rates were calculated by the Kety formula. The mean myocardial perfusion rates in the left ventricle exceeded those in the right ventricle or atrial regions in subjects without demonstrable coronary artery disease. In this group there was a significant lack of homogeneity of local perfusion rates in left ventricular myocardium; the mean coefficient of variation of left ventricular local perfusion rates was 15.8%. In the patients with radiographically demonstrable coronary artery disease, a variety of myocardial perfusion patterns were observed. Local capillary blood flow rates were depressed throughout the myocardium of patients with diffuse coronary disease but were subnormal only in discrete myocardial regions of others with localized occlusive disease. Local myocardial perfusion rates were similar to those found in the group with normal coronary arteriograms in patients with slight degrees of coronary disease and in those areas of myocardium distal to marked coronary constrictions or occlusions which were well supplied by collateral vessels. In subjects with right coronary disease, the mean right ventricular perfusion rates were significantly subnormal; in seven subjects of this group perfusion of the inferior left ventricle by a dominant right coronary artery was absent or depressed. The average mean left ventricular perfusion rate of 12 subjects with significant disease of two or more branches of the left coronary artery was significantly lower than that of the group with normal left coronary arteriograms. In the patients with abnormal left coronary arteriograms, the average coefficient of variation of local left ventricular perfusion rates was significantly increased (24.8%). The studies provide evidence that coronary artery disease is associated with increased heterogeneity of local myocardial perfusion rates. They indicate that radiographically significant vascular pathology of the right or left coronary artery may be associated with significant reductions of myocardial capillary perfusion in the region supplied by the diseased vessel.
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Franciosa JA, Limas CJ, Guiha NH, Rodriguera E, Cohn JN. Improved left ventricular function during nitroprusside infusion in acute myocardial infarction. Lancet 1972; 1:650-4. [PMID: 4125161 DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(72)90460-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 365] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Kluge TH, Kerth WJ, Gerbode F. Aorto-coronary bypass in experimental animals without the use of extracorporeal circulation. A new method for research in myocardial revascularization. SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF THORACIC AND CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY 1972; 6:257-61. [PMID: 4539292 DOI: 10.3109/14017437209134807] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Brennan FJ, McCans JL, Chiong MA, Parker JO. Effects of ouabain on myocardial potassium and sodium balance in man. Circulation 1972; 45:107-13. [PMID: 4257020 DOI: 10.1161/01.cir.45.1.107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Myocardial electrolyte balance and hemodynamics were studied in 14 patients before and after the administration of ouabain. The drug caused a significant loss of potassium from the myocardium. This was accompanied by a significant positive inotropic response, indicated by an increase in the rate of rise of left ventricular pressure and systolic ejection-rate index. Heart rate, cardiac output, left ventricular end-diastolic pressure, brachial artery pressure, and left ventricular stroke-work index remained unchanged. These observations in man are compatible with those theories of digitalis action which associate inotropic effect with the inhibition of membrane sodium- and potassium-activated adenosine triphosphatase.
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Hinshaw LB. Does endotoxin have direct or indirect effects on the heart? ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 1971; 23:399-414. [PMID: 4950807 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-9014-9_37] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Right atrial pacing was performed in 21 patients with and 10 patients without coronary artery disease (CAD). The values for the control (C) and maximum paced (P) heart rate were similar in all patients. During pacing cardiac output did not change, and mean arterial pressure remained constant except for a slight increase during pacing-induced angina pectoris in 11 patients with CAD. Left ventricular end-diastolic pressure (LVEDP) decreased in the normal subjects (C=9 ± 1, P = 3 ± 1
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mm Hg) and in all 10 patients with CAD who did not develop angina (C=5 ± 3, P = 5 ± 1 mm Hg). In 11 patients with CAD, developing angina, LVEDP did not decrease before pain occurred (C=9 ± 1, P = 9 ± 2 mm Hg) and increased during induced angina (P = 14 ± 3 mm Hg). Pacing ventricular function curves (VFC) relating induced changes in LVEDP and stroke work were abnormal in five of 10 patients with CAD and without induced angina when compared to the normal subjects. In patients developing angina, pacing VFC were normal in five of 10 before pain and then became abnormal in four of these five when angina occurred.
Atrial pacing may be used to evaluate ventricular function and may demonstrate abnormalities in patients with CAD even in the absence of pacing-induced angina. Angina pectoris is usually associated with an overall decrease in myocardial function.
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Horwitz LD, Gorlin R, Taylor WJ, Kemp HG. Effects of nitroglycerin on regional myocardial blood flow in coronary artery disease. J Clin Invest 1971; 50:1578-84. [PMID: 4999635 PMCID: PMC442056 DOI: 10.1172/jci106645] [Citation(s) in RCA: 126] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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Regional myocardial blood flow before and after sublingual nitroglycerin was measured in 10 patients with coronary artery disease. During thoracotomy, (133)Xe was injected directly into the subepicardium in diseased regions of the anterior left ventricular wall, and washout rates were recorded with a scintillation counter. All disappearance curves were closely approximated by two exponential decays analyzed as two parallel flow systems by the compartmental method. The appearance of a double exponential decay pattern in diseased regions suggests that the slow phase was associated with collateral blood flow, although nonhomogeneous myocardium-to-blood partition coefficients for xenon cannot be excluded. Nitroglycerin increased the rapid phase flow in 9 of 10 patients and the slow flow in 7 of 10 patients. Average flow increased in 9 of the 10 patients (P < 0.01). Mean rapid phase flow in the control state was 110 ml/100 g per min and after nitroglycerin increased to 132 ml/100 g per min (P < 0.01); slow phase flow increased from 12 ml/100 g per min to 15 ml/100 g per min (P < 0.05). It is concluded that, under these conditions, nitroglycerin improves perfusion in regions of diseased myocardium in patients with coronary artery disease.
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Current knowledge concerning the major hemodynamic features of acute myocardial infarction has been reviewed and discussed in relation to present concepts of cardiac pathophysiology. The physical examination provides a great deal of information and new, noninvasive methods promise to supplement the bedside appraisal of left ventricular function. Direct hemodynamic methods of serially monitoring patients with acute myocardial infarction are finding increasing application and recently have added considerably to our understanding of this condition. Certain limitations in the use of the central venous pressure, pulmonary arterial pressure, and cardiac output in appraising left ventricular function have become apparent, but together with direct catheterization of the left ventricle such hemodynamic studies have now provided limited correlations between the clinical picture and various hemodynamic patterns. It is becoming increasingly clear that most of these features, including cardiogenic shock, probably reflect varying degrees of left ventricular failure. These initial findings and interpretations will require confirmation, however, and so far insufficient objective data are available concerning the natural history of acute myocardial infarction and its responses to various forms of therapy. The aims of investigations now being carried in specialized Myocardial Infarction Research Units and other cardiovascular research centers, are to gain such further understanding of the pathophysiology of this disease and to aid in its clinical management by developing accurate indirect monitoring techniques as well as new forms of therapy.
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[Involvement of basal oxygen consumption, activation of myocardium as well as of hemodynamic parameters in total oxygen consumption of the heart]. KLINISCHE WOCHENSCHRIFT 1970; 48:767-76. [PMID: 4939158 DOI: 10.1007/bf01494491] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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