The Official Journal of EuroPCR and the European Association of Percutaneous Coronary Interventions (EAPCI)
Clinical research
Quantitative assessment of coronary microvascular function in patients with and without epicardial atherosclerosis
EuroIntervention 2010;5 939-945.
Narbeh Melikian1,2, BSc, MD, MRCP; Stephen Vercauteren1, MD; William F. Fearon3, MD; Thomas Cuisset1, MD; Philip A. MacCarthy4, MB BCh, PhD, FRCP; Giedrius Davidavicius1, MD; Wilbert Aarnoudse5, MD; Jozef Bartunek1, MD, PhD; Marc Vanderheyden1, MD, PhD; Eric Wyffels1, MD; William Wijns1, MD, PhD; Guy R. Heyndrickx1, MD, PhD; Nico H. J. Pijls5, MD, PhD; Bernard De Bruyne1*, MD, PhD
1. Cardiovascular Center, OLV Hospital, Aalst, Belgium; 2. Cardiology Department, King’s College London School of Medicine, London, United Kingdom; 3. Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, CA, USA; 4. Cardiolog
Aims: The influence of atherosclerosis and its risk factors on coronary microvascular function remain unclear as current methods of assessing microvascular function do not specifically test