Showing posts with label blood flow. Show all posts
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Thursday, 20 September 2012

Coronary artery blood flow

Regarding normal coronary artery blood flow, the following statements are true EXCEPT which one?

a) Total left coronary artery flow is initially decreased by tachycardia
b) At rest, right coronary artery blood flow is greater than left coronary artery blood
flow at the beginning of systole
c) Flow in the left coronary artery at rest may be as high as 100 mL/min
d) Right coronary flow is at its lowest at the beginning of diastole
e) At rest, peak left coronary artery flow may be six times higher than peak right
coronary artery flow