Pharmacological alterations of coronary collateral circulation; Implication to the steal-phenomenon
- 1 March 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Pflügers Archiv - European Journal of Physiology
- Vol. 373 (3), 219-224
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00580827
Abstract
Measurements of resistances were performed on different parts of coronary vessels, including spontaneous collaterals in anesthetized dogs, following ligation and embolization of the descending branch of the left coronary artery. The normal situation was compared with the state of maximal pharmacological dilatation. The pharmacological dilatation decreased the collateral resistance by 24% in spite of the fact that the collaterals supplied an infarcted area in this case; the precollateral resistance, which chiefly consists of large vessels was also diminished. The collateral perfusion pressure is not only dependent on the aortic pressure, but also on the flow rate in the corresponding large coronary vessel and thereby on the ratio of precollateral to postcollateral resistance. A decrease of the collateral perfusion pressure causes an insufficient perfusion of the area supplied by the collaterals only when the pressure fall is not compensated for by an adequate decrease in the collateral resistance and when the ratio of the collateral to the nutritive resistance increases. Thus, both, the extent of the pressure fall across the precollateral resistance and the dilating capacity of the collaterals determine whether or not a pharmacological dilatation of the coronary vascular bed results in an insufficient supply of an infarcted area, i.e. in a so called “Steal-phenomenon”. The results show further, that the given physical model of the microcirculation satisfactorily approximates the observed behaviour of the vascular system.Keywords
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