Regional myocardial energetics during brief periods of coronary occlusion and reperfusion: comparison with S-T segment changes

Abstract

In open-chest dogs transient occlusion of the left anterior descending coronary artery induced an immediate decline in the creatine phosphate content of the ischaemic area, a lesser decline of the ATP and total adenine nucleotide contents and a rise in S-T segments. Reperfusion after 15 min restored creatine phosphate level and intramyocardial electrograms to normal whereas ATP and total adenine nucleotide levels stayed down. None of these parameters were modified in the non-ischaemic area during the experiments. This study shows that there is no close relationship between electrical and biochemical events during either ischaemia or reflow.