ORIGIN AT ANGINA-PECTORIS IN PATIENTS WITH HIGH-GRADE SINGLE-VESSEL CORONARY-ARTERY STENOSIS UNDERGOING PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY

Authors
VRACHATIS AD ALPERT MA NIKAS DJ DERNELLIS JM GEORGULAS VP KAFKAS NV DEFTEREOS SG ZACHAROULOS AA
Citation
Ad. Vrachatis et al., ORIGIN AT ANGINA-PECTORIS IN PATIENTS WITH HIGH-GRADE SINGLE-VESSEL CORONARY-ARTERY STENOSIS UNDERGOING PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY, The American journal of cardiology, 81(11), 1998, pp. 1345
Citations number
11
Categorie Soggetti
Cardiac & Cardiovascular System
Journal title
The American journal of cardiology → ACNP
ISSN journal
00029149
Volume
81
Issue
11
Year of publication
1998
Database
ISI
SICI code
0002-9149(1998)81:11<1345:OAAIPW>2.0.ZU;2-Q
Abstract
This study shows that in patients with subtotal (95% to 99%) coronary artery stenosis, the presence of myocardial ischemia is dictated prima rily by the presence and degree of coronary collateral how, with anter ograde flow participating little, if at all, in the origin of myocardi al ischemia and angina pectoris. Conversely, in patients with severe b ut not subtotal coronary artery stenosis (70% to 94%), both reduced an terograde flow and coronary collateralization contribute to the evolut ion of myocardial ischemia and angina pectoris.