[Microcirculatory effects of hemosorption in patients with stable angina pectoris, based on data from radionuclide...

The impact of hemosorption on microhemo- and lymphocirculation, reserve microcirculatory bed potentials, and capillary permeability was examined by using radionuclide techniques in 46 patients with coronary heart disease refractory to drug antianginal therapy. Hemosorption was found to yield a beneficial clinical effect in 47.8% of the patients, resulting in a substantial increase in microcirculation and its reserves and a decrease in microvascular resistance both at rest and in reactive postischemic hyperemia. But it deteriorated the microcirculation in patients refractory to it.