Coronary microvascular dysfunction in the clinical setting: from mystery to reality

Coronary Microcirculatory Resistance Is Independent of Epicardial Stenosis

(2012) Andy S.C. Yong et al.   Circulation-Cardiovascular Interventions

High Prevalence of a Pathological Response to Acetylcholine Testing in Patients With Stable Angina Pectoris and Unobstructed Coronary Arteries

(2012) Peter Ong et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY

Arterial Pulse Wave Dynamics After Percutaneous Aortic Valve Replacement

(2011) Justin E. Davies et al.   CIRCULATION

Myocardial ischaemia in patients with coronary endothelial dysfunction: insights from body surface ECG mapping and implications for invasive evaluation of chronic chest pain

(2011) M. R. Summers et al.   EUROPEAN HEART JOURNAL

Stable angina pectoris with no obstructive coronary artery disease is associated with increased risks of major adverse cardiovascular events

(2011) L. Jespersen et al.   EUROPEAN HEART JOURNAL

ESC Guidelines for the management of acute coronary syndromes in patients presenting without persistent ST-segment elevation: The Task Force for the management of acute coronary syndromes (ACS) in patients presenting without persistent ST-segment elevation of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC)

(2011) et al.   EUROPEAN HEART JOURNAL

Significance and assessment of coronary microvascular dysfunction

(2011) D. Y. Leung et al.   HEART

Hospital Variability in the Rate of Finding Obstructive Coronary Artery Disease at Elective, Diagnostic Coronary Angiography

(2011) Pamela S. Douglas et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY

Myocardial Infarction Due to Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

(2011) Abhiram Prasad et al.   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

Angiographic assessment of microvascular perfusion—Myocardial blush in clinical practice

(2010) Italo Porto et al.   AMERICAN HEART JOURNAL

Primary Coronary Microvascular Dysfunction

(2010) Gaetano Antonio Lanza et al.   CIRCULATION

Vasoconstrictor Potential of Coronary Aspirate From Patients Undergoing Stenting of Saphenous Vein Aortocoronary Bypass Grafts and Its Pharmacological Attenuation

(2010) Petra Kleinbongard et al.   CIRCULATION RESEARCH

Impact of early vs. late microvascular obstruction assessed by magnetic resonance imaging on long-term outcome after ST-elevation myocardial infarction: a comparison with traditional prognostic markers

(2010) S. de Waha et al.   EUROPEAN HEART JOURNAL

Reversible coronary microvascular dysfunction: a common pathogenetic mechanism in Apical Ballooning or Tako-Tsubo Syndrome

(2010) L. Galiuto et al.   EUROPEAN HEART JOURNAL

Coronary flow reserve assessed by myocardial contrast echocardiography predicts mortality in patients with heart failure

(2010) B. Anantharam et al.   European Journal of Echocardiography

Impaired endothelial progenitor cell recruitment may contribute to heart transplant microvasculopathy

(2010) Elena Osto et al.   JOURNAL OF HEART AND LUNG TRANSPLANTATION

Endothelial Function and Vascular Response to Mental Stress Are Impaired in Patients With Apical Ballooning Syndrome

(2010) Elizabeth A. Martin et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY

Coronary Microvascular Reactivity to Adenosine Predicts Adverse Outcome in Women Evaluated for Suspected Ischemia

(2010) Carl J. Pepine et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY

Therapeutic advances in myocardial microvascular resistance: Unravelling the enigma

(2010) Billal Patel et al.   PHARMACOLOGY & THERAPEUTICS

The Indirect Alloimmune Response Causes Microvascular Endothelial Dysfunction—A Possible Role for Alloantibody

(2010) Ying Xu et al.   TRANSPLANTATION

Cardiac PET Imaging for the Detection and Monitoring of Coronary Artery Disease and Microvascular Health

(2010) Thomas H. Schindler et al.   JACC-Cardiovascular Imaging

Quantitative assessment of coronary microvascular function in patients with and without epicardial atherosclerosis

(2010) Narbeh Melikian et al.   EuroIntervention

Diffuse, marked, reversible impairment in coronary microcirculation in stress cardiomyopathy: A Doppler transthoracic echo study

(2009) Fausto Rigo et al.   ANNALS OF MEDICINE

Lack of Correlation Between Noninvasive Stress Tests and Invasive Coronary Vasomotor Dysfunction in Patients With Nonobstructive Coronary Artery Disease

(2009) Andrew Cassar et al.   Circulation-Cardiovascular Interventions

Primary coronary microvascular dysfunction and poor coronary collaterals predict post-percutaneous coronary intervention cardiac necrosis

(2009) Stephen P. Hoole et al.   CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE

Abnormal coronary reserve and left ventricular wall motion during cold pressor test in patients with previous left ventricular ballooning syndrome

(2009) Giuseppe Barletta et al.   EUROPEAN HEART JOURNAL

Usefulness of the index of microcirculatory resistance for invasively assessing myocardial viability immediately after primary angioplasty for anterior myocardial infarction

(2009) H.-S. Lim et al.   EUROPEAN HEART JOURNAL

Evidence for reduced coronary flow reserve in patients with insulin-dependent diabetes. A possible cause for diabetic heart disease in man

(2009) B. E. Strauer et al.   EXPERIMENTAL AND CLINICAL ENDOCRINOLOGY & DIABETES

The Case for Myocardial Ischemia in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

(2009) Martin S. Maron et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY

Long-Term Prognostic Value of 13N-Ammonia Myocardial Perfusion Positron Emission Tomography

(2009) Bernhard A. Herzog et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY

Left Ventricular Dysfunction Secondary to Ischemia in Women with Angina and Normal Coronary Angiograms

(2009) Amalia Peix et al.   JOURNAL OF WOMENS HEALTH

Fractional Flow Reserve versus Angiography for Guiding Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

(2009) Pim A.L. Tonino et al.   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

Evaluation of post-stress left ventricular dysfunction and its relationship with perfusion abnormalities using gated SPECT in patients with cardiac syndrome X

(2009) Hakan Demir et al.   NUCLEAR MEDICINE COMMUNICATIONS

Additive Prognostic Value of Coronary Flow Reserve in Patients With Chest Pain Syndrome and Normal or Near-Normal Coronary Arteries

(2008) Rosa Sicari et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY

Coronary slow-flow causing transient myocardial hypoperfusion in patients with cardiac syndrome X: Long-term clinical and functional prognosis

(2008) Gabriele Fragasso et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY

Coronary slow flow: Description of a new “cardiac Y” syndrome

(2008) Massimo Fineschi et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY

Predictive Value of the Index of Microcirculatory Resistance in Patients With ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction

(2008) William F. Fearon et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY

The “slow coronary flow” phenomenon: Evidence of preserved coronary flow reserve despite increased resting microvascular resistances

(2007) Massimo Fineschi et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY

The Coronary Flow Reserve Is Transiently Impaired in Tako-Tsubo Cardiomyopathy: A Prospective Study Using Serial Doppler Transthoracic Echocardiography

(2007) Patrick Meimoun et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY