[Coronarography-scintigraphy comparison of the effects of trinitrin-spray in 15 patients with coronary disease].

15 patients with coronary disease underwent a dual investigation, angiographic and scintigraphic, first without treatment and after administration of 0.8 mg of sub-lingual trinitrin-spray. The radiocinema angiography enables to explore variations of the coronary and stenosic diameter, the duration of the opacification (inverse of circulatory velocity) and the tonality of the network. Plane scintigraphy with T1201 enables to quantify the regional fixation in 9 myocardiac territories, as well as the global fixation with the myocardium/background noise ratio and the index of mean perfusion deficit. The diameter of healthy arteries and the pre- and post-stenotic segments of the diseased arteries are uniformly dilated after trinitrin (11.5-12.5%) while the stenoses are on an average unchanged (+ 1.2% NS). 4 cases of stenotic dilatations were observed, but without any decrease of the degree of stenosis (the pre-stenotic diameter increasing in the same proportions), nor any scintigraphic improvement. On scintigraphy, no difference of the myocardium/background noise ratio nor the mean deficit index was observed after trinitrin, which demonstrates the non-variation of the total coronary output. On the contrary, a redistribution of the regional activity (and therefore of the regional coronary flow) is observed in 10 patients. In comparing the stenotic areas which improve on scintigraphy (group I) and those which do not improve or deteriorate (group II) with the modifications of the arterial diameters under trinitrin, a correlation does not appear to be present. Also, the tonality is uniformly increased in both groups. The circulatory velocity is, however, significantly decreased in group II.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)