Abstract
Coronary blood flow is responsible for providing nutrients and oxygen to the heart thus enabling it to pump blood to itself and the rest of the circulatory system. Given this important task, oxygen supply must be matched very closely to the demands of the myocardium. This is accomplished through various regulatory mechanisms that can have deleterious effects if interrupted due to the presence of coronary stenosis or other factors that affect basal and hyperemic blood flow. As such, knowledge of these mechanisms is imperative in understanding the physiological assessment of coronary stenosis and in treating various cardiac conditions.
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Cami, E. (2015). Physiology of Coronary Blood Flow. In: Abbas, A. (eds) Interventional Cardiology Imaging. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5239-2_2
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