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CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH
Volume 116, Issue 4, Pages 817-828Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/cvr/cvaa009
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Microvascular angina; Coronary microvascular dysfunction; Comorbidities; Endothelial dysfunction; Inflammation
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Coronary microvascular dysfunction (CMD) plays a pathogenic role in cardiac and systemic conditions other than microvascular angina. In this review, we provide an overview of the pathogenic role of CMD in the setting of diabetes mellitus, obesity, hypertensive pregnancy disorders, chronic inflammatory and autoimmune rheumatic disorders, chronic kidney disease, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, and aortic valve stenosis. In these various conditions, CMD results from different structural, functional, and/or dynamic alterations in the coronary microcirculation associated with the primary disease process. CMD is often detectable very early in the course of the primary disease, before clinical symptoms or signs of myocardial ischaemia are present, and it portrays an increased risk for cardiovascular events.
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