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2019 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of chronic coronary syndromes

Juhani Knuuti, William Wijns, Antti Saraste, Davide Capodanno, Emanuele Barbato, Christian Funck‐Brentano, Eva Prescott, Robert F. Storey, Christi Deaton, Thomas Cuisset, Stefan Agewall, Kenneth Dickstein, Thor Edvardsen, Javier Escaned, Bernard J. Gersh, Pavel Svítil, Martine Gilard, David Hasdai, Róbert Hatala, Felix Mahfoud, Josep Masip, Claudio Muneretto, Marco Valgimigli, Stephan Achenbach, Jeroen J. Bax, ESC Scientific Document Group, Franz-Josef Neumann, Udo Sechtem, Adrian Banning, Nikolaos Bonaros, Héctor Bueno, Raffaele Bugiardini, Alaide Chieffo, Filippo Crea, Martin Czerny, Victoria Delgado, Paul Dendale, Frank A. Flachskampf, H. Gohlke, Erik Lerkevang Grove, Stefan James, Demosthenes G. Katritsis, Ulf Landmesser, Maddalena Lettino, Christian M. Matter, Hendrik M. Nathoe, Alexander Niessner, Carlo Patrono, Anna Sonia Petronio, S. Pettersen, Raffaele Piccolo, Massimo Piepoli, Bogdan A Popescu, Lorenz Räber, Dimitrios Richter, Marco Roffi, Franz Xaver Roithinger, Е. V. Shlyakhto, Dirk Sibbing, Sigmund Silber, Iain Simpson, Miguel Sousa‐Uva, Panos Vardas, Adam Witkowski, Jose Luis Zamorano, Stephan Achenbach, Stefan Agewall, Emanuele Barbato, Jeroen J. Bax, Davide Capodanno, Thomas Cuisset, Christi Deaton, Kenneth Dickstein, Thor Edvardsen, Javier Escaned, Christian Funck‐Brentano, Bernard J Gersh, Martine Gilard, David Hasdai, Róbert Hatala, Felix Mahfoud, Josep Masip, Claudio Muneretto, Eva Prescott, Antti Saraste, Robert F. Storey, Pavel Svitil, Marco Valgimigli, Stephan Windecker, Victor Aboyans, Colin Baigent, Jean-Philippe Collet, Veronica Dean, Victoria Delgado, Donna Fitzsimons, Chris P Gale, Diederick E. Grobbee, Sigrun Halvorsen, Gerhard Hindricks, Bernard Iung

European Heart Journal · 2019

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Summary

Coronary artery disease (CAD) is a pathological process characterized by atherosclerotic plaque accumulation in the epicardial arteries,
\nwhether obstructive or non-obstructive. This process can be modified by lifestyle adjustments, pharmacological therapies, and invasive
\ninterventions designed to achieve disease stabilization or regression.
\nThe disease can have long, stable periods but can also become unstable at any time, typically due to an acute atherothrombotic event
\ncaused by plaque rupture or erosion. However, the disease is
\nchronic, most often progressive, and hence serious, even in clinically
\napparently silent periods. The dynamic nature of the CAD process
\nresults in various clinical presentations, which can be conveniently categorized as e

Source type
Peer-reviewed study
DOI
10.1093/eurheartj/ehz425
Catalogue ID
SNmoj7nqfd-pa11hv
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