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Coronary circulation and coronary reserve in the hypertensive heart

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Part of the book series: Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine ((DICM,volume 98))

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The occurrence of symptoms suggestive of myocardial ischemia such as angina pectoris or ST-T segment depression during exercise [1, 2] or the greater severity of myocardial infarction in patients or animals with hypertension [3, 4] has long prompted investigators to study the coronary circulation in hypertensive cardiac hypertrophy. Interest in this field and more generally in the cardiac consequences of increased blood pressure has heightened over the past decade because of a number of factors including (1) the demonstration that hypertension was the dominant etiology for left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH), (2) advances in noninvasive techniques, such as echocardiography, allowing a precise and reproducible assessment of cardiac mass, and (3) the possibility of reversing the cardiovascular structural changes of hypertension with treatment.

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  1. Department of Internal Medicine and Hypertension Research Center, Broussais Hospital, Paris, France

    M. E. Safar

  2. Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

    F. Fouad-Tarazi

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Wicker, P. (1989). Coronary circulation and coronary reserve in the hypertensive heart. In: Safar, M.E., Fouad-Tarazi, F. (eds) The Heart in Hypertension. Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine, vol 98. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0941-0_23

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