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Reactive hyperaemia, the cardiovascular response to transient occlusion of a vessel, was examined and compared in the right coronary artery (RCA) and the left anterior descending coronary artery (LAD) in the same heart of an open-chest dog. First, to study the relationship between reactive hyperaemia and occlusion time in the RCA and LAD, respective flows were measured and reactive hyperaemia was induced with different occlusion times. Occlusion time required for half the maximum peak percentage reactive hyperaemic flow (%PRH), t 1/2, for the RCA was approximately twice that of the LAD: 11.4±2.3 s versus 5.9±1.4 s. Maximum %PRH of the RCA was significantly greater than that of the LAD while the percentage repayment of the RCA was lower than that of the LAD. Augmentation of right ventricular oxygen consumption shortened t 1/2 and increased percentage repayment significantly. Second, to determine “critical pressure”, which was defined as the perfusion pressure below which reactive hyperaemia was abolished completely, the RCA and LAD were perfused through a shunt from the carotid artery, perfusion pressure was varied in the range of 100 to 20 mmHg and reactive hyperaemia was induced. Critical pressure in the RCA was significantly lower than in the LAD: 32.2±5.7 mmHg versus 41.5±5.0 mmHg. These results suggest that the RCA has a greater flow reserve than the LAD. These results were consistent with the difference of oxygen metabolism between the right and left ventricles. The difference of oxygen metabolism between the two ventricles would, at least partly, account for these results.
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Watanabe, H., Kusachi, S., Saito, D. et al. Reactive hyperaemic flow characteristics of the right coronary artery compared to the left anterior descending coronary artery in the open-chest dog. Pflugers Arch. 417, 410–417 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00370661
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