Assessing the relation between coronary reflow and myocardial reflow

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Ito, H [1 ]
Iwakura, K [1 ]
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[1] Sakurabashi Watanabe Hosp, Div Cardiol, Kita Ku, Osaka 530, Japan
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10.1016/S0002-9149(98)00046-0
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R5 [内科学];
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1002 ; 100201 ;
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Since the recognition that prompt reperfusion of the infarct-related artery decreases mortality after acute myocardial infarction (MI), we have been interested in optimizing therapeutic regimens to accelerate the establishment of infarct-related artery patency, Although the major endpoint of many angiographic trials has been the acquisition of a patent infarct-related artery, this may not correlate with actual tissue perfusion because of the no-reflow phenomenon, With myocardial contrast echocardiography (MCE), we assessed the success of myocardial reperfusion at the microvascular level in patients with an acute anterior MI. We documented that 21% of the study patients exhibited Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction (TIMI) grade 2 flow after coronary angioplasty, and all of them showed substantial "no reflow" on MCE. Conversely, no reflow was observed on MCE in only 16% of patients with TIMI grade 3 flow. Early TIMI grade 3 flow resulted in a significantly better left ventricular functional outcome compared with those with TIMI grade 2, In view of: microvascular perfusion, TIMI grade 2, despite the absence of coronary obstruction, cannot be regarded as successful reperfusion, Our study, using a Doppler guidewire probe, documented the specific coronary flow pattern in patients with TIMI grade 2, Patients with TIMI grade 3 flow exhibited systolic antegrade flow followed by the predominant diastolic flow, TIMI grade 2 flow represented features of a to-and-fro coronary flow velocity pattern, This latter is characterized by (1) the abnormal retrograde glow in the early systole; (2) the reduction in the systolic antegrade flow; and (3) the rapid deceleration of the diastolic flow velocity. This pattern would be explained by on increase in vascular impedance and a decrease in myocardial blood volume. (C) 1998 by Excerpta Medica, Inc.
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