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Standardization of coronary vasomotor tone with intracoronary nitroglycerin
1Department of Cardiology, Hannover Medical School, Germany.
The American Journal of Cardiology
|July 1, 1996
Abstract:
Maximal, reproducible, and thus "standardized" dilation of epicardial coronary arteries can be easily achieved with intracoronary bolus administration of 0.1 mg nitroglycerin without considerable decrease in blood pressure. The addition of other nitrocompounds or calcium antagonists cannot increase coronary dilation after nitroglycerin, but may be hampered by adverse effects.