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Coronary Artery Spasm: Clinical Aspect

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Vasospastic angina (VSA) is one of the important functional cardiac disorders characterized by transient myocardial ischemia due to epicardial coronary artery spasm. In this chapter, I review the clinical features of VSA including pathophysiology, diagnosis, treatments, and prognosis. Furthermore, I also refer to the evidence of microvascular angina.

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Abbreviations

Coronary vasospasm:

State of functional hemodynamically relevant narrowing of a coronary artery due to hypercontraction of smooth muscle cells of the coronary artery walls.

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Shimokawa, H. (2015). Coronary Artery Spasm: Clinical Aspect. In: Lanzer, P. (eds) PanVascular Medicine. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37078-6_259

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