Theory and critical aspects of the so-called steal effect of coronary dilators of the dipyridamole type
Döring, D.; Günther, B.
Zeitschrift für die Gesamte Innere Medizin und ihre Grenzgebiete 33(20): 768-770
1978
ISSN/ISBN: 0044-2542 PMID: 735248 Document Number: 136374
The stenocardias appearing in the dipyridamol test are explained by the hypothesis of a steal effect. This notion is, concerning its contents, to be demarcated against other regulatory processes. With the help of a simple model can be made clear that the thesis of a steal effect stands in contradiction to haemodynamic basic conceptions and cannot be used for the explanation of the paradoxical effect of dipyridamol.