Tuba Unkun, Koray Demirci, Serdar Fidan, Sevim Türkday Derebey, Büsra Güvendi Sengör, Cemalettin Yılmaz, Süleyman Cagan Efe, Gokhan Alıcı, Birol Özkan, Ali Karagöz
BACKGROUND: Myocardial work (MW) is a novel echocardiographic modality, which has been shown to have diagnostic and prognostic values in patients with cardiovascular diseases, patients with obstructive coronary artery disease, in particular. However, only a handful of studies have examined the MW analysis in ischemia with nonobstructive coronary artery (INOCA) disease. This study, therefore, aimed to detect the early left ventricular involvement in INOCA patients diagnosed by an invasive coronary angiography performing the MW analysis...
May 3, 2024: Journal of Clinical Ultrasound: JCU