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  • Title: Reduced coronary vasodilation in patients with familial hypercholesterolemia following intracoronary injection of isosorbide dinitrate.
    Author: Saku K, Jimi S, Sasaki N, Nii T, Shirai K, Koga N, Arakawa K.
    Journal: Jpn Circ J; 1995 Dec; 59(12):808-14. PubMed ID: 8788372.
    Abstract:
    To clarify the relationship between the dilatation of angiographically non-stenotic coronary artery segments in response to isosorbide dinitrate (ISDN), and serum lipids, 5 coronary segments in 7 patients with familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) and 43 patients with non-familial hypercholesterolemia (non-FH), who had either 1- or 2-vessel coronary heart disease, were investigated. The serum total cholesterol level was significantly greater in FH than in non-FH. Before and after the direct intracoronary injection of ISDN, coronary diameter was measured by a computer-assisted coronary angiography analysis system. The order of the dilative responses in coronary segments in non-FH patients (segments: #5 > #11 > #6 > #13 > #7) was exactly the same as the order of their original diameters, while the ratio of the increase in diameter (after/before ISDN injection) did not differ among any of the segments (mean: 1.08-fold increase). In the non-FH group, no correlation was found between the serum total cholesterol, triglyceride, low-density lipoprotein-cholesterol, or high-density lipoprotein-cholesterol, and the ratio of the coronary diameter after and before injection of ISDN. Moreover, hypercholesterolemia in non-FH did not affect the coronary dilative response to ISDN injection. In the FH group, although the original diameter of each segment did not differ from that in the non-FH group, the ratio of the diameter after and before injection of ISDN was significantly smaller in FH than in non-FH (p < 0.01). These results suggest that a non-stenotic coronary artery in FH has a lower capacity for vasodilation in response to ISDN. Although hypercholesterolemia was excluded as a factor which may suppress the capacity for coronary dilation in non-FH, spontaneous hypercholesterolemia in FH may affect medial smooth muscle functions of the coronary artery.
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