(HealthDay)—In an American Heart Association scientific statement published online March 27 in Circulation, best practices are presented for diagnostic evaluation and management of myocardial ...

MINOCA stands for myocardial infarction with non-obstructive coronary arteries. As its name suggests, it's a type of heart attack without any blockages (obstructions) in the main coronary arteries ...

In all, 301 women at 16 sites were enrolled and 170 were diagnosed with MINOCA during coronary angiography, prompting additional multivessel investigation with OCT followed by CMR within 1 week of the ...

Among women with MI with nonobstructive coronary arteries, approximately 85% had potential mechanisms identified when they underwent coronary OCT and cardiac MRI, according to results of the HARP ...

Heart disease is the leading cause of death among women in the U.S., and a type of heart attack called myocardial infarction with non-obstructive coronary arteries (MINOCA), which predominantly ...

MINOCA is abbreviated as "myocardial infarction with non-obstructive coronary arteries" It is caused as a result of inadequate blood supply to the heart Shortness of breath, nausea ...

Patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), classified as having MI with nonobstructive coronary arteries (MINOCA) or MINOCA mimickers, exhibit sex-based differences in ...

The “Chinese expert consensus on the diagnosis and treatment of coronary microvascular diseases (2023 Edition)” newly published in MedComm summarized the latest progress in the field of ...

INOCA: Ischemia with no obstructive coronary artery disease; MINOCA: Myocardial infarction with no obstructive coronary artery disease. view more . Credit: Canadian Journal of Cardiology.