Clinical Advances in Angina Pectoris
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Cardiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 18 May 2024 | Viewed by 3758
Special Issue Editors
Interests: PCI; CTO PCI; intracoronary physiology; refractory angina; complex PCI; CHIP
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Angina pectoris is a chronic disabling condition affecting a growing number of patients with ischemic heart disease. It becomes refractory when complaints persist despite optimal medical therapy due to severe and/or diffuse coronary artery disease (CAD) without options for percutaneous or surgical revascularization procedures. Furthermore, a growing proportion of patients complaining of angina pectoris appear to suffer from microvascular dysfunction without obstructive coronary artery disease. The recent progress in the diagnosis and treatment of this condition represents for the clinical and interventional cardiologist an opportunity to further improve the identification of the affected patients and their clinical outcome.
The availability of advanced physiology measurements allows us not only to better identify patients with epicardial and microvascular disease, but also to guide the cardiologist to the best treatment option. Similarly, the continuous improvements in materials and techniques for complex revascularisation procedures (such as Chronic Total Occlusions) allow for not only an extremely high success rate, but also for a less invasive approach and potentially reduced complications rate. Finally, a recently introduced device for the treatment of refractory angina (such as the Coronary Sinus Reducer) may provide additional tools when revascularisation procedures and physiology-guided optimal medical therapy are not sufficiently effective. In this Special Issue, we welcome authors to submit papers on the clinical advance of refractory angina as well as angina without obstructive coronary artery disease in terms of both diagnosis and treatment.
Dr. Carlo Zivelonghi
Dr. Valeria Paradies
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- angina pectoris
- refractory angina
- chronic total occlusion
- microvascular dysfunction
- intracoronary physiology
- coronary sinus reducer
