Chest pain without obstructive coronary artery disease: a case series.
Novalia P SidikMichael McDermottMargaret B McEntegartColin BerryPublished in: European heart journal. Case reports (2020)
This case series highlights the different mechanisms of ischaemia in the absence of obstructive CAD. Patients with angina and no obstructive CAD classified by computed tomography coronary angiography may have myocardial ischaemia due to microvascular angina, vasospastic angina, or both. Conventional investigations risk under-diagnosing, and as a consequence under-treating, patients with these conditions. Coronary function testing, in the form of diagnostic guidewire-based tests and adjunctive acetylcholine provocation, has proven to be critical in the accurate diagnoses and appropriate management of these patients.
Keyphrases
- coronary artery disease
- percutaneous coronary intervention
- cardiovascular events
- computed tomography
- coronary artery bypass grafting
- coronary artery
- ejection fraction
- newly diagnosed
- aortic stenosis
- left ventricular
- high resolution
- cardiovascular disease
- acute coronary syndrome
- mass spectrometry
- atrial fibrillation