Journal
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-HEART AND CIRCULATORY PHYSIOLOGY
Volume 293, Issue 4, Pages H2178-H2182Publisher
AMER PHYSIOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.01292.2006
Keywords
coronary circulation; autonomic nervous system; ischemic heart disease; cardiac imaging; positron emission tomography
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- Medical Research Council [MC_U120084164] Funding Source: researchfish
- MRC [MC_U120084164] Funding Source: UKRI
- Medical Research Council [MC_U120084164] Funding Source: Medline
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We studied the impact of systemic infusion of the nitric oxide synthase (NOS) inhibitor N-G-monomethyl-L-arginine (L-NMMA) on coronary flow reserve (CFR) in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD). We have previously demonstrated that CFR to adenosine was significantly increased after systemic infusion of L-NMMA in normal volunteers but not in recently transplanted denervated hearts. At baseline, myocardial blood flow (MBF; ml . min(-1). g(-1)) was measured at rest and during intravenous administration of adenosine (140 mu g . kg(-1) . min(-1)) in 10 controls (47 +/- 5 yr) and 10 CAD patients (58 +/- 8 yr; P < 0.01 vs. controls) using positron emission tomography and O-15-labeled water. Both MBF measurements were repeated during intravenous infusion of 10 mg/kg L-NMMA. CFR was calculated as the ratio of MBF during adenosine to MBF at rest. CFR was significantly higher in healthy volunteers than in CAD patients and increased significantly after L-NMMA in controls (4.00 +/- 1.10 to 6.15 +/- 1.35; P < 0.0001) and in patients, both in territories subtended by stenotic coronary arteries (> 70% luminal diameter; 2.06 +/- 1.13 to 3.21 +/- 1.07; P < 0.01) and in remote segments (3.20 +/- 1.23 to 3.92 +/- 1.62; P < 0.05). In conclusion, CFR can be significantly increased in CAD by a systemic infusion of L-NMMA. Similarly to our previous findings in normal volunteers, this suggests that adenosine-induced hyperemia in CAD patients is constrained by a mechanism that can be relieved by systemic NOS inhibition with L-NMMA.
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