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SUBMITTER: Pruthi S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC10019932 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Pruthi Sonal S Siddiqui Emaad E Smilowitz Nathaniel R NR
Interventional cardiology clinics 20230101 1
Ischemic heart disease (IHD) affects more than 20 million adults in the United States. Although classically attributed to atherosclerosis of the epicardial coronary arteries, nearly half of patients with stable angina and IHD who undergo invasive coronary angiography do not have obstructive epicardial coronary artery disease. Ischemia with nonobstructive coronary arteries is frequently caused by microvascular angina with underlying coronary microvascular dysfunction (CMD). Greater understanding ...[more]