The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Vol 69, 876-879, Copyright © 1975 by The American Association for Thoracic Surgery and The Western Thoracic Surgical Association
Effects of cardiac lymphatic obstruction on coronary arteries
RR Bradham, EF Parker, WB Greene and GR Hennigar
A study was undertaken to determine whether changes occurred in the
coronary arteries of dogs after obstruction of the cardiac lymphatics.
Other investigators have described changes in the walls of coronary
arteries after cardiac lymphatic obstruction that caused compromise of the
lumen. Adult mongrel dogs were subjected to an operation which occluded the
cardiac lymphatics. Several days later, a second operation was done to
remove specimens of the terminal branches of the coronary arteries. The
specimens were studied by light and electron microscopy. There was no gross
or microscopic evidence of altered morphology of the coronary arterial
walls.