Slow coronary run-off in patients with angina pectoris: Clinical significance and thallium-201 scintigraphic study

Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 605-613

  Cesar L A M ^a   Ramires, J A F ^a   Serrano Jr , C V ^a   Meneghetti, J C ^a   Ahtonelli, R H ^a   Da Luz, P L ^a   Pileggi, F J C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Angina pectoris; Coronary artery disease; Myocardial ischemia; Syndrome X

Indexed keywords

ANGINA;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; THALLIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; SCINTISCANNING;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANGINA PECTORIS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; THALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES;

EID: 0030133670     PISSN: 0100879X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (44)

1. Isner JM, Salem DN, Banas Jr JS & Levine HJ (1981). Long-term clinical course of patients with normal coronary adenography. Follow-up study of 121 patients with normal or nearly normal coronary arteriograms. American Heart Journal, 102: 645-653.
2. Letac B, Berland J, Cribier A, Cazor JL & Hecketsweiler B (1983). L'angine de poitrine avec artères coronaires normales. Étude clinique, hémodynamique et métabolique. Archives des Maladies du Coeur et des Vaisseaux, 76: 211-222.
3. Selzer A (1977). Cardiac ischemic pain in patients with normal coronary arteriograms. American Journal of Medicine, 63: 661-665.
4. Maseri A, Chiercia S, Davies G & Glazier J (1985). Mechanisms of ischemic cardiac pain and silent myocardial ischemia. American Journal of Medicine, 79: 7-11.
5. Espinosa R, Badui E, Narvaez MG & Hurtado R (1986). Infarto del miocardio con coronarias normales. Archivos del Instituto de Cardiologia de Mexico, 56: 481-488.
6. Lyndsay J & Pichard A (1984). Acute myocardial infarction with normal coronary arteries. American Journal of Cardiology, 54: 902-907.
7. Gorling F (1983). Dynamic vascular factors in the genesis of myocardial ischemia. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 1: 897-906.
8. Kaski JC, Crea F, Nhihoyannopoulos P, Hackett D & Maseri A (1986). Transient myocardial ischemia during daily life in patients with Syndrome X. American Journal of Cardiology, 58: 1242-1247.
9. Tambe AA, Demany MA, Zimmerman HA & Mascarenhas E (1972). Angina pectoris and slow flow velocity of dye in coronary arteries. A new angiographic finding. American Heart Journal, 84: 66-71.
10. Batlouni M, Armaganijan D, Bucler JR, Duprat R & Sousa JEM (1977). Fluxo lento coronário. Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia, 30: 81-85.
11. Przybojewski JZ & Becker PH (1986). Angina pectoris and acute myocardial infarction due to "slow-flow phenomenon" in non-atherosclerotic coronary arteries: A case report. Angiology, 37: 751-761.
12. Sans P, Valeix B, Yeboles L, Berliox-Sans H, Baralla Abrunie P, Balansard P & Gérard R (1986). Retard de remplissage de l'artère interventriculaire antérieure. A propos de 9 cas. Archives des Maladies du Coeur et des Vaisseaux, 12: 1742-1747.
13. Ellestad MH (Editor) (1975). The history of stress testing. In: Stress Testing FA Davis, Philadelphia, 1-25.
14. Criteria Committee of the New York Heart Association (1964). Disease of the Heart and Blood Vessels. 16th edn. Little. Brown and Company, Boston, 110-114.
15. Sones Jr FM & Shirkey EK (1962). Cinecoronary arteriography. Modern Concepts on Cardiovascular Diseases, 31: 735-738.
16. Dodge HT, Saudler HS, Baxley WA & Hawley RR (1966). Usefulness and limitations of radiographic methods for determining left ventricular volume. American Journal of Cardiology, 18: 10-16.
17. Gensini GG, Buonano C & Palacio A (1967). Anatomy of the coronary circulation in living men: coronary arteriography. Diseases of the Chest, 52: 125-128.
18. Fleiss JL (1981). The comparison of proportion from several independent samples. In: Fleiss JL (Editor), Statistical Methods for Rates and Proportions. 1st edn. John Wiley & Sons, New York.
19. Snedecor GR & Cochran WG (1980). Statistical Methods. 7th edn. The Iowa State University Press, Ames.
20. SAS Institute Inc. SAS User's Guide Statistics (1987). 6th edn. SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC.
21. Bateman T, Maddahi J, Gray RJ, Murphy FL, Garcia EV, Conklin M, Raymond MJ, Stewart ME, Swan HJC & Berman DS (1984). Diffuse slow washout of myocardial thallium-201: a new scintigraphy indicator of extensive coronary artery disease. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 4: 55-62.
22. Meller J, Goldsmith SJ, Rudin A, Pichard AD, Gorlin R, Teichhola LE & Herman MV (1979). Spectrum of exercise thallium-201 myocardial perfusion imaging in patients with chest pain and normal coronary angiograms. American Journal of Cardiology, 43: 717-723.
23. Beckers LC (1980). Diagnoses of coronary artery disease with exercise radionuclide imaging: state of the art. American Journal of Cardiology, 45: 1301-1304.
24. Berman DS, Garcia EV & Maddahi J (1981). Thallium-201 myocardial scintigraphy in detection and evaluation of coronary heart disease. In: Berman DS & Mason DT (Editors), Clinical Nuclear Cardiology. Grune Stratton, New York.
25. Bodenheimer MM, Banka VS, Fooshee CM & Helfant RH (1979). Comparative sensitivity of the exercise electrocardiogram, thallium imaging, and stress radionuclide angiography to detect the presence and severity of coronary heart disease. Circulation, 60: 1270-1276.
26. Hoffman JIE (1984). Maximal coronary flow and concepts of coronary vascular reserve. Circulation, 70: 153-159.
27. Marcus ML, Wilson RF & Whitee CW (1987). Methods of measurement of myocardial blood flow in patients: A critical review. Circulation, 76: 245-253.
28. Cannon III RO, Bonow RB, Baccharach SL, Green MV, Rosing DR, Leon MB, Watson RM & Epstein SE (1985). Left ventricular dysfunction in patients with angina pectoris, normal epicardial coronary arteries, and abnormal vasodilator reserve. Circulation, 71: 218-226.
29. Cannon III RO, Loen MB, Watson RM, Rosing DR & Epstein SE (1985). Chest pain and "normal" coronary arteries. Role of small coronary arteries. American Journal of Cardiology, 55: 50B-60B.
30. Green LH, Conn PF, Holman BL, Adams DL & Markis JE (1978). Regional myocardial blood flow in patients with chest pain syndrome and normal coronary arteriograms. British Heart Journal, 40: 242-249.
31. Bailey IK, Griffith LSC, Rouleau J, Strauss W & Pitt B (1977). Thallium-201 myocardial perfusion imaging at rest and during exercise. Comparative sensitivity to electrocardiography in coronary artery disease. Circulation, 55: 79-87.
32. Corne RA, Gotsman MS, Weiss A, Enlandder D, Samuels LD, Salomon JA, Warshaw SB & Allan H (1979). Thallium-201 scintigraphy in diagnoses of coronary stenosis. Comparison of electrocardiographic and coronary arteriography. British Heart Journal, 41: 575-583.
33. Pohost GM, Alpert NM & Ingwall JS (1980). Thallium-201 redistribution. Mechanisms and clinical utility. In: Freeman IM & Blaufox MD (Editors), Cardiovascular Nuclear Medicine. Current Methodology and Practice. Grune Stratton, Orlando, FL, 168-191.
34. Verani MS, Marcus ML, Razzak MA & Ehrhardt JC (1978). Sensitivity and specificity of thallium-201 perfusion scintigrams under exercise in the diagnoses of coronary artery disease. Journal of Nuclear Medicine, 19: 773-782.
35. Blood DK, McCarthy DM, Sciacca RR & Canon PJ (1978). Comparison of single-dose and double-dose thallium-201 myocardial perfusion scintigraphy for the detection of coronary artery disease and prior myocardial infarction. Circulation, 58: 777-788.
36. Ritchie JL, Zaret BL, Strauss HW, Pitt B, Berman DS, Schelbert HR, Ashburn WL, Berger HJ & Hamilton GW (1978). Myocardial imaging with thallium-201. A multicenter study in patients with angina pectoris or acute myocardial infarction. American Journal of Cardiology, 2: 345-350.
37. Legrand V, Hodgson JM, Bates ER, Aureon FM, Mancini GBJ, Smith JS, Gross MD & Vogel RA (1985). Abnormal coronary flow reserve and abnormal radionuclide exercise test results in patients with normal coronary angiograms. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 6: 1245-1253.
38. Abdulla A, Maddahi J, Garcia AE, Rozanski A, Swans HJC & Berman DS (1985). Slow regional clearance of myocardial thallium-201 in the absence of perfusion defect: contribution to detection of individual coronary artery stenoses and mechanism of occurrence. Circulation, 71: 72-79.
39. Kaski JC, Tousoulis D, Galassi AR, McFadden E, Pereira WI, Crea F & Maseri A (1991). Epicardial coronary artery tone and reactivity in patients with normal coronary arteriograms and reduced coronary flow reserve (Syndrome X). Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 18: 50-54.
40. Mosseri M, Yarom R, Gotsman MS & Hasin Y (1986). Histologic evidence for small-vessel coronary artery disease in patients with angina pectoris and patent large coronary arteries. Circulation, 74: 964-972.
41. Opherk D, Zebe H, Weihe E, Mall G, Durr C, Gravert B, Mehmel HC, Schwartz F & Kubler W (1981). Reduced coronary dilatory capacity and ultrastructural changes of myocardium in patients with angina pectoris but normal coronary arteriograms. Circulation, 63: 817-825.
42. Opherk D, Mall G, Zebe H, Scwartz F, Weihe E, Manthey S & Kubler W (1984). Reduction of coronary reserve: a mechanism for angina pectoris in patients with arterial hypertension and normal coronary arteries. Circulation, 69: 1-7.
43. Sambuceti G, Giorgetti A, Gimelli A, Marzullo P, Neglia D, Salvadori P, L'Albate A & Parodi O (1994). Alterazione globale nella regolazione del flusso coronarico regionale in pazienti con coronariopatia monovascolare evidenziata mediante tomografia ad emissione di positroni. Giornale Italiano de Cardiologia, 24: 673-684.
44. Voelker W, Euchner U, Dittmann H & Karsch KR (1991). Long-term clinical course of patients with angina and angiographically normal coronary arteries. Clinical Cardiology, 14: 307-311.