Coronary Anatomy to Predict Physiology

Coronary anatomy to predict physiology: fundamental limits.

Anatomy and physiology of coronary blood flow

Regional myocardial blood flow can now be measured noninvasively in units of milliliters blood per minute per gram myocardium. These noninvasive measurements are not confined to a specific imaging modality but are available with MRI, CT, and PET, although, thus far, most investigations of the coronary circulation in humans have employed PET flow measurements. Flow estimates with these different...

Anatomy & Physiology

The incidence is about 1:10,000 live people. Normal human development results in an asymmetrical arrangement of the organs within the chest and abdomen. Typically, the heart lies on the left side of the body (levocardia), the liver and spleen lie on the right. Mirror image i.e. transposition of abdominal and thoracic viscera is termed Situs inversus totalis. It has shown the anomalies of rotati...

Heartbeat: Anatomy versus physiology for diagnosis of coronary artery disease.

The optimal approach to the initial diagnosis of coronary artery disease (CAD) in patients with chest pain symptoms is controversial. Historically, graded treadmill exercise stress testing for diagnosis of CAD was proposed in 1963 by Robert A. Bruce in Seattle because direct visualisation of the coronary arteries was expensive and risky at that time. Over the intervening five decades, a plethor...

Aids to Anatomy and Physiology for Nurses