How do the flow components of coronary flow reserve (CFR) change after aortic valve replacement?

To twist a lyric from the song “Dem [Dry] Bones”, we might summarize our purview as “valve bone connected to the heart bone” – technically the coupling between a stenotic aortic valve and myocardial function. In a practical sense, how does blood flow to the myocardium change in response to relief from severe aortic sten osis (AS)? The important contribution in this issue of the American Journal of Cardiology from investigators in Cádiz, Spain,1 provides new data to integrate into a unified hypothesis and help answer this question.
Source: The American Journal of Cardiology - Category: Cardiology Authors: Tags: Editorial Source Type: research