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Myocardial function around the border of ischemia was investigated in eight open-chest dogs using video mapping of epicardial deformation. With this method, 40–60 white markers attached to the left ventricular epicardium were traced in time automatically. Before and 5–10 min after coronary artery occlusion, blood flow and epicardial deformation were determined in 30–40 regions with a spatial resolution of about 5 mm. Epicardial deformation was expressed as subepicardial fiber shortening and surface area decrease during the ejection phase. The latter indicates local contribution to stroke volume. The absolute values of these variables were normalized relative to the central ischemic (= 0%) and remote non-ischemic area (= 100%). The 50% contour line of a variable was defined as its border. The average distance between the borders of perfusion and function was not significantly different from zero, due to considerable variation in this distance both within one heart (± 5.7 mm) and between mean distances for different hearts (± 4.4 mm). The width of the transition zone (distance between the 20% and 80% contour lines) of surface area decrease and subepicardial fiber shortening was significantly larger (20.5 and 15.0 mm, respectively) than those of transmural and subepicardial blood flow (8.5 and 9.5 mm, respectively). The present results demonstrate that in a 20-mm zone around the border of ischemia, major discrepancies are present between perfusion and deformation.
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Prinzen, F.W., Arts, T., Hoeks, A.P.G. et al. Discrepancies between myocardial blood flow and fiber shortening in the ischemic border zone as assessed with video mapping of epicardial deformation. Pflügers Arch 415, 220–229 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00370596
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