TY - JOUR
T1 - Coronary microvascular dysfunction
T2 - Mechanisms and functional assessment
AU - Camici, Paolo G.
AU - D'Amati, Giulia
AU - Rimoldi, Ornella
PY - 2015/1/11
Y1 - 2015/1/11
N2 - Obstructive disease of the epicardial coronary arteries was recognized as the cause of angina pectoris >2 centuries ago, and sudden thrombotic occlusion of an epicardial coronary artery has been established as the cause of acute myocardial infarction for >100 years. In the past 2 decades, dysfunction of the coronary microvasculature emerged as an additional mechanism of myocardial ischaemia that bears important prognostic implications. The coronary microvasculature (vessels
AB - Obstructive disease of the epicardial coronary arteries was recognized as the cause of angina pectoris >2 centuries ago, and sudden thrombotic occlusion of an epicardial coronary artery has been established as the cause of acute myocardial infarction for >100 years. In the past 2 decades, dysfunction of the coronary microvasculature emerged as an additional mechanism of myocardial ischaemia that bears important prognostic implications. The coronary microvasculature (vessels
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U2 - 10.1038/nrcardio.2014.160
DO - 10.1038/nrcardio.2014.160
M3 - Article
C2 - 25311229
AN - SCOPUS:84927570395
VL - 12
SP - 48
EP - 62
JO - Nature Reviews Cardiology
JF - Nature Reviews Cardiology
SN - 1759-5002
IS - 1
ER -