Comprehensive Angiography-derived Functional Assessment of Epicardial and Microvascular Coronary Disease. Correlation With Non-invasive Myocardial Stress Imaging

Coronary angiography (CA) is poorly correlated with non-invasive myocardial stress imaging (NSI) and myocardial ischemia is often observed in patients with unobstructed coronary arteries. Moreover, the diagnostic performance of combined epicardial and microcirculatory angiography-derived physiological assessment and its correlation with NSI remains unknown. Nine-hundred-seventeen coronary vessels in 319 patients who underwent both CA and NSI were included in this multicenter observational retrospective analysis.

Source: The American Journal of Cardiology - February 29, 2024 Category: Cardiology Authors: Francesco Della Mora, Leonardo Portolan, Dimitrios Terentes-Printzios, Andrea Vicer è, Stefano Andreaggi, Marco Biasin, Gabriele Pesarini, Domenico Tavella, Caterina Maffeis, Elvin Tafciu, Giovanni Benfari, Dimitrios Oikonomou, Konstantia-Paraskevi Gkini Source Type: research