Abstract
Left ventricular pressures were analyzed before and after left ventricular and coronary artery angiography in 40 subjects. Seven “normal” patients demonstrated no rise in left ventricular end-diastolic pressure following angiography. Two patients with cardiomyopathy and 27 of 31 patients with coronary artery disease demonstrated significant rises in end-diastolic pressure, proportional to the extent of the disease, following angiography. Of the 4 failing to show a rise, nitroglycerin had been administered prior to pressure recordings in 3.
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