Riccardo Maragna, Saima Mushtaq, Andrea Baggiano, Andrea Annoni, Maria Ludovica Carerj, Francesco Cilia, Fabio Fazzari, Alberto Formenti, Laura Fusini, Elisabetta Mancini, Francesca Marchetti, Marco Penso, Alessandra Volpe, Luigi Tassetti, Francesca Baessato, Alexia Rossi, Chiara Rovera, Andrea I Guaricci, Gianluca Pontone
Ischaemic heart disease (IHD) is one of the world's leading causes of morbidity and mortality. Likewise, the diagnosis and risk stratification of patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) have always been based on the detection of the presence and extent of ischaemia by physical or pharmacological stress tests with or without the aid of imaging methods (e.g. exercise stress, test, stress echocardiography, single-photon emission computed tomography, or stress cardiac magnetic resonance). These methods show high performance to assess obstructive CAD, whilst they do not show accurate power to detect non-obstructive CAD...
May 2023: European Heart Journal Supplements: Journal of the European Society of Cardiology