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To the Editor: The words of warning against overreliance on angiographic findings in the coronary arteries in the editorial comments by Wilson (June 27 issue)¹ were appropriate but not new.² It is difficult to calculate the precise degree of flow impairment on the basis of angiographic images of an atherosclerotic artery.³ The paper by Pijls et al.,⁴ to which the editorial refers, lists the results of "quantitative coronary arteriography," based on two-directional measurements made on the static images, down to the 1/100th of a millimeter. They did not separate the results for those with positive responses from those with negative . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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