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Long-term outcomes of ischaemia with no obstructive coronary artery disease (INOCA): a systematic review and meta-analysis

Open Heart

Background The prognosis of myocardial ischaemia with no obstructive coronary artery disease (INOCA) and its underlying vasomotor disorders, vasospastic angina (VSA) and microvascular angina (MVA), is not well defined.

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Safe Deferral of Coronary Computed Tomography Angiography for Patients With a Low Pretest Probability of Coronary Artery Disease in 2019 European Society of Cardiology Guidelines

Journal of the American Heart Association

Journal of the American Heart Association, Volume 12, Issue 23 , December 5, 2023. BackgroundCoronary computed tomography angiography is increasingly used as the firstā€line test for suspected coronary artery disease. PTP was calculated according to the 2013 and 2019 ESC guidelines.

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The efficacy of traditional Chinese herbal medicine across multiple cardiovascular diseases: an umbrella review of systematic reviews of randomized controlled trials

Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology

Traditional Chinese herbal medicine (CHM) has been extensively used in cardiovascular disease in modern clinical practice, alone or in combination with conventional treatment. From inception until August 2023, we systematically searched five public literature databases to conduct the umbrella review.

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Do Stents Make You Feel Better?

Dr. Paddy Barrett

Subscribe now Stenting stable coronary artery disease has not been convincingly proven to reduce the risk of future heart attacks or death 1. Whether stenting a narrowed coronary artery improves symptoms such as chest pain (angina) or shortness of breath is a very different question. What About Symptoms?

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Lowering Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease Events by Treating Residual Inflammatory Risk

DAIC

Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD), caused by plaque buildup in arterial walls, is one of the leading causes of disability and death worldwide.1,2 1,2 ASCVD causes or contributes to conditions that include coronary artery disease (CAD), cerebrovascular disease, and peripheral vascular disease (inclusive of aortic aneurysm).3

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Rise of the Lysenkoist Cardiologists

Dr. Anish Koka

Diamond and Forrester accomplished this by first establishing the prevalence of coronary artery disease based on how clinically likely patients with chest pain symptoms were found to have coronary disease based on a coronary angiogram. Thanks for reading Dr. Anish Koka's Newsletter!

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"A patient just arrived as a transfer for NSTEMI."

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

I quickly reviewed the patientā€™s records and saw that she was a 53 year old woman with a history of BMI 40, but no other identifiable risk factors for coronary artery disease. The absence of risk factors for coronary artery disease does not mean a patient is not at risk for OMI.

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