Cardiac Microvascular Disease - A Complex Diagnosis?

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Pieter A. Doevendans Yolande Appelman

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Pieter A. Doevendans
Department of Cardiology University Medical Center Utrecht, Central Military Hospital Utrecht, Netherlands Heart Institute Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands

A B S T R A C T

Diagnosing microvascular disease in a continuously moving organ like the contracting heart is difficult. Although we have a wide ranch of (non)invasive diagnostic tools available it is still a challenge to reach a solid conclusion. In many patients there is also a combination of risk factors inducing several disease causing mechanisms further obscuring classification strategies. More research will be crucial going form histology to function to determine the position of microvascular disease in patients with unexplained chest pain.

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Review Article

Publication history

Received: Tue 07, Apr 2020
Accepted: Fri 24, Apr 2020
Published: Mon 27, Apr 2020

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© 2023 Pieter A. Doevendans. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.HCS.2020.01.03