Clinical Study

Prophylactic Intra-Arterial Injection of Vasodilator for Asymptomatic Vasospasm Converts the Patient to Symptomatic Vasospasm due to Severe Microcirculatory Imbalance

Figure 5

Mechanism of iatrogenic blood steal in a case of asymptomatic vasospasm. Vasodilator easily flows into nonspastic arteries; these nonetiologic arteries then advanced a much greater supply of blood. The improvement in blood flow of the spastic artery is relatively smaller than that of the nonspastic artery (compared to the original).
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