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Collateral Circulation

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Quantitation in Cardiology

Part of the book series: Boerhaave Series for Postgraduate Medical Education ((BSPM,volume 8))

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Coronary artery occlusion does not always lead to myocardial infarction. A classical example was published by Blumgart et al. in 1940 (1) of a 52-year-old man who died from a cerebral hemorrhage. Injection of the coronary arteries with a radio-opaque medium showed four occluded and four severely stenosed coronary arterial branches, but no trace of a myocardial infarct.

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  1. Blumgart, H. L., Schlesinger, M. J. & Davis, D., Studies on the relation of the clinical manifestations of angina pectoris, coronary thrombosis and myocardial infarction to the pathologic findings, with particular reference to the significance of collateral circulation. Amer. Heart J. 19, 1 (1940).

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  1. W. Schaper
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  1. Department of Cardiology, University Hospital, Leiden, The Netherlands

    H. A. Snellen M.D.

  2. Department of Cardiobiochemistry, University Hospital, Leiden, The Netherlands

    H. C. Hemker M.D.

  3. Department of Cardiology, Rotterdam Medical Faculty, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

    P. G. Hugenholtz M.D.

  4. Institute of Medical Physics TNO, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    J. H. Van Bemmel Ph.D.

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Schaper, W. (1971). Collateral Circulation. In: Snellen, H.A., Hemker, H.C., Hugenholtz, P.G., Van Bemmel, J.H. (eds) Quantitation in Cardiology. Boerhaave Series for Postgraduate Medical Education, vol 8. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2927-8_6

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