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SUBMITTER: Ford TJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6545998 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ford Thomas J TJ Berry Colin C
Interventional cardiology (London, England) 20190521 2
Patients with symptoms and/or signs of ischaemia but no obstructive coronary artery disease (INOCA) present a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge. Microvascular and/or vasospastic angina are the two most common causes of INOCA; however, invasive coronary angiography lacks the sensitivity to diagnose these functional coronary disorders. In this article, the authors summarise the rationale for invasive testing in the absence of obstructive coronary disease, namely that correct treatment for angin ...[more]