Coronary microvascular dysfunction is associated with impaired cognitive function: the cerebral-coronary connection study (C3 study)

Authors: Hernan Mejia-RenteriaAlejandro TraviesoJordi A Matías-GuiuMiguel YusCarolina Espejo-PaeresFrancesca FinocchiaroSara FernándezCarlos Ignacio Gomez-EscalonillaBlanca Reneses-PrietoMaria Dulcenombre Gómez-Garré, Alfonso Delgado-AlvarezAna BustosLeopoldo Perez de IslaJose Juan Gomez de DiegoJavier Modrego-MartinAdriana Ortega-HernandezPetros PapadopoulosJuan Arrazola-GarcíaJorge Matías-GuiuJavier Escaned

Keywords: Ischaemic heart diseaseCoronary microvascular dysfunctionCerebral small vessel diseaseCognitive impairment

https://academic.oup.com/eurheartj/advance-article/doi/10.1093/eurheartj/ehac521/6807333?login=false

Coronary Functional Abnormalities in Patients With Angina and Non obstructive Coronary Artery Disease

Authors: Akira Suda, Jun Takahashi, Kiyotaka Hao, Yoku Kikuchi, Tomohiko Shindo, Shohei Ikeda, Koichi Sato, Jun Sugisawa, Yasuharu, Matsumoto, Satoshi Miyata, Yasuhiko Sakata, Hiroaki Shimokawa. 

Lay summary: Various types of coronary microvascular dysfunctions (CMD), such as epicardial coronary artery spasm, reduced coronary flow reserve, and increased coronary microcirculatory resistance, are frequently overlapped even in the same patient with poor long-term prognosis.

https://www.jacc.org/doi/full/10.1016/j.jacc.2019.08.1056

Ref.: J Am CollCardiol. 2019;74(19):2350-2360.

Prevalence and correlates of coronary microvascular dysfunction in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction: PROMIS-HFpEF

Sanjiv J Shah, Carolyn S P Lam, Sara Svedlund, Antti Saraste, Camilla Hage, Ru-San Tan, Lauren Beussink-Nelson, Ulrika Ljung Faxen, Maria Lagerstrom Fermer, Malin A Broberg, Li-Ming Gan, Lars H
Lay Summary – How common is Coronary Microvascular Dysfunction and is it associated with a particular type of heart failure.
https://academic.oup.com/eurheartj/article/39/37/3439/5077831