Coronary Microvascular Dysfunction

• Main Authors: Crea, Filippo (Author), Lanza, Gaetano A. (Author), Camici, Paolo G. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Milano : Springer Milan : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Angiology.; Cardiology.; Minimally invasive surgery.; Medicine & Public Health.; Minimally Invasive Surgery.

In the past two decades a number of studies have shown that abnormalities in the function and structure of coronary microcirculation can be detected in several cardiovascular diseases. On the basis of the clinical setting in which it occurs, coronary microvascular dysfunction (CMD) can be classified...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Physiology of coronary microcirculation
• 2 Mechanisms of coronary microvascular dysfunction
• 3 Methods to assess coronary microvascular function
• 4 CMD in the absence of myocardial diseases and obstructive CAD
• 5 CMD in myocardial diseases
• 6 CMD in obstructive CAD
• 7 Iatrogenic coronary microvascular dysfunction
• 8 Treatment of primary CMD
• 9 Treatment of CMD in myocardial diseases
• 10 Treatment of CMD in obstructive CAD
• 11 Prevention of iatrogenic CMD.