PERFUSION RESERVE OF CORONARY COLLATERAL CIRCULATION AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF EXERCISE-INDUCED ISCHEMIA IN PATIENTS WITH MULTIVESSEL DISEASE

• Published in: JAPANESE CIRCULATION JOURNAL Vol. 58; no. 1; pp. 15 - 21
• Main Authors: MIYAKODA, HIROYUKI, NOGUCHI, NORIYASU, OMODANI, HIROKI, OSAKI, SHUICHI, KITAMURA, HIDEYUKI, MATSUMOTO, TATSUHIKO, OGINO, KAZUHIDE, HOSHIO, AKIRA, KOTAKE, HIROSHI, MASHIBA, HIROTO
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: The Japanese Circulation Society 1993
• Subjects: Collateral circulation; Coronary artery disease; Exercise-stress tomographic thallium-201; myocardial imaging

To assess the perfusion reserve of coronary collateral circulation, we analyzed exercise-stress tomographic thallium-201 myocardial images in 12 patients who had total occlusion in the right coronary artery (RCA) or left circumflex coronary artery (LCX) with well-developed collateral circulation and...