[A dynamic study of myocardial perfusion using radioisotope analysis of coronary blood flow during auricular...

Reproductibility of the radiocardiographic method using 42 Potassium has been verified. Coronary blood flow has so been measured in 50 control subjects and coronary heart disease patients, at steady state and during auricular pacing at 150 beats per minute. In control subjects group, under auricular packing coronary blood flow increases by a mean value of 15%; on the other hand it decreases by a mean value of 32% in coronary heart disease patients bearing obvious coronarography lesions. The cardiac output coronary fraction increases by a mean value of 27% in the control subjects group; it remains unchanged in coronary heart disease patients. On the contrary this coronary fraction increases in a significant way after functional aortocoronary bypass.