Vijay Kunadian, Alaide Chieffo, Paolo G Camici, Colin Berry, Javier Escaned, Angela H E M Maas, Eva Prescott, Nicole Karam, Yolande Appelman, Chiara Fraccaro, Gill Louise Buchanan, Stephane Manzo-Silberman, Rasha Al-Lamee, Evelyn Regar, Alexandra Lansky, J Dawn Abbott, Lina Badimon, Dirk J Duncker, Roxana Mehran, Davide Capodanno, Andreas Baumbach
Lay Summary – 2020 Expert Consensus Document. Definition, diagnosis, treatment & prognosis
EUROIntervention –
https://eurointervention.pcronline.com/doi/10.4244/EIJY20M07_01
Clinical characteristics and prognosis of patients with microvascular angina: an international and prospective cohort study by the Coronary Vasomotor Disorders International Study (COVADIS) Group
Hiroaki Shimokawa, Akira Suda, Jun Takahashi, Colin Berry, Paolo G Camici, Filippo Crea, Javier Escaned, Tom Ford, Eric Yii, Juan-Carlos Kaski, Takahiko Kiyooka, Puja K Mehta, Peter Ong, Yukio Ozaki, Carl Pepine, Ornella Rimoldi, Basmah Safdar, Udo Sechtem, Kenichi Tsujita, Satoshi Yasuda, John F Beltrame, C Noel Bairey Merz
Lay Summary – 2021 update on Microvascular Angina
European Heart Journal –
https://academic.oup.com/eurheartj/article-lookup/doi/10.1093/eurheartj/ehab282
Altered limbic and autonomic processing supports brain-heart axis in Takotsubo syndrome
Christian Templin, Jürgen Hånggi, Carina Klein, Marlene S Topka, Thierry Hienstand, Rena A Levinson, Stjepan Jurisic, Thomas F Lüscher, Jelena-Rima Ghadri, Lutz Jåncke
Lay Summary – Looking at whether the nervous system might play a role in and help the understanding of Takotsubo.
http://academic.oup.com/eurheartj/article/40/15/1183/5366976
Coronary Microvascular Disease Pathogenic Mechanisms and Therapeutic Options: JACC State-of-the-Art Review
Viviany R Taqueti, Marcelo F Di Carli
Lay Summary – Looks at the process of CMVD, updates on diagnostic testing strategies, occurence, risk factors and relationship to heart failure.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6296779/
Microvascular and Lymphatic Dysfunction in HFpEF and its associated comorbidities
Ilona Cuijpers, Steven J Simmonds, Marc van Bilsen, Elzbieta Czarnowska, Arantxa Gonzalez Miqueo, Stephane Heymans, Annika R Kuhn, Paul Mulder, Anna Ratajska, Elizabeth A.V. Jones & Ebba Brakenhielm.
Lay Summary – Coronary Microvascular Dysfunction, the links to chronic low-grade inflammation and HfPef with possible new treatment and management therapies.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00395-020-0798-y
The Who, What, Why, When, How and Where of Vasospastic Angina
John F. Beltrame, Filippo Crea, Juan Carlos Kaski, Hisao Ogawa, Peter Ong, Udo Sechtem, Hiroaki Shimokawa, C. Noel Bairey Merz
Lay Summary – Detailed information on Coronary Artery Spasm
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/circj/80/2/80_CJ-15-1202/_html
Ischaemia without obstructive coronary artery disease: the pathophysiology of microvascular dysfunction
Aish Sinha, Haseeb Rahman, Divaka Perera
Lay Summary – Discusses the causes and processes of Microvascular Dysfunction.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32852345/