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Myocardial Ischemia

Slow coronary flow alone may lead to myocardial ischemia

Published in Health and Medicine Week, November 1st, 2004

Researchers have compared exercise QRS amplitude changes in patients with slow coronary flow versus significant coronary stenosis.

Investigators in Turkey report, "Exercise Q, R, and S wave amplitude changes, called the QRS score, have been reported to be a marker of exercise-induced myocardial ischemia. Therefore, in [our] study, using the exercise QRS score, we sought to determine if slow coronary flow (SCF) phenomenon is associated with the exercise-induced myocardial ischemia."

M. Turkmen and colleagues of the Kosuyolu Heart Education and Research Hospital in Istanbul described their approach, "This retrospective study included 23 patients...

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