Authors: Hetal H. Mehta, MD; Mackenzie Morris, MD; David L. Fischman, MD John J. Finley, IV, MD; Nicholas Ruggiero, MD; Paul Walinsky, MD; Melissa McCarey, MPH; Michael P. Savage, MD
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.
2021 AHA/ACC/ASE/CHEST/SAEM/SCCT/SCMR Guideline for the Evaluation and Diagnosis of Chest Pain: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Joint Committee on Clinical Practice Guidelines
Martha Gulati, Phillip D. Levy, Debabrata Mukherjee, Ezra Amsterdam, Deepak L. Bhatt, Kim K. Birtcher, Ron Blankstein, Jack Boyd, Renee P. Bullock-Palmer, Theresa Conejo, Deborah B. Diercks, Federico Gentile, John P. Greenwood, Erik P. Hess, Steven M. Hollenberg, Wael A. Jaber, Hani Jneid, José A. Joglar, David A. Morrow, Robert E. O’Connor, Michael A. Ross and Leslee J. Shaw
Lay Summary – USA Guidelines on how to assess and diagnose chest pain
Diagnosis of patients with angina and non-obstructive coronary disease in the catheter laboratory
Haseeb Rahman, David Corcoran, Muhammad Aetesam-ur-Rahman, Stephen P Hoole, Colin Berry, Divaka Perera.
Lay Summary – Defining the specific type of CMVD in patients can improve management
https://heart.bmj.com/content/105/20/1536