Taken directly from JAMA Network
In a prospective, multi-center cohort study, 106 consecutive participants with preserved ejection fraction were evaluated with coronary angiography, invasive coronary physiologic and vasoreactivity testing, and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging. A total of 51% of the study participants had obstructive epicardial coronary artery disease, 66% had endothelium-independent coronary microvascular dysfunction, and 24% had endothelium-dependent coronary microvascular dysfunction.
The findings of this study suggest that obstructive epicardial coronary artery disease and coronary microvascular dysfunction are common and often unrecognised in hospitalised patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction.
Read more: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/article-abstract/2781078
Read the editorial comment: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/article-abstract/2781082
Reference
Rush CJ, Berry C, Oldroyd KG, Rocchiccioli JP, Lindsay MM, Touyz RM, Murphy CL, Ford TJ, Sidik N, McEntegart MB, Lang NN, Jhund PS, Campbell RT, McMurray JJV, Petrie MC. Prevalence of Coronary Artery Disease and Coronary Microvascular Dysfunction in Patients With Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction. JAMA Cardiol. 2021 Jun 23. doi: 10.1001/jamacardio.2021.1825. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34160566
