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ReviewJournal of clinical medicine2023

Coronary Microcirculation: The Next Frontier in the Management of STEMI.

Dejan Milasinovic, Olga Nedeljkovic, Ruzica Maksimovic, Dragana Sobic-Saranovic, Djordje Dukic, Vladimir Zobenica, Dario Jelic, Milorad Zivkovic, Vladimir Dedovic, Sanja Stankovic and 2 more

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Review in Journal of clinical medicine, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
14citing papers in PubMed
5.0field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed, 23 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. The Phoenix Heart-PICSO and the Rebirth of Embryonic Life in the Ischemic Myocardium.Journal of cardiovascular development and disease · 2026
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  5. Coronary Flow Reserve Measured by Myocardial Perfusion Imaging in Patients Following Percutaneous Coronary Intervention.Catheterization and cardiovascular interventions : official journal of the Society for Cardiac Angiography & Interventions · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Dejan MilasinovicDepartment of Cardiology, University Clinical Center of Serbia, 26 Visegradska, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia.
Olga NedeljkovicFaculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia.
Ruzica MaksimovicFaculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia.
Dragana Sobic-SaranovicFaculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia.ORCID 0000-0001-9600-090X
Djordje DukicDepartment of Cardiology, University Clinical Center of Serbia, 26 Visegradska, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia.
Vladimir ZobenicaDepartment of Cardiology, University Clinical Center of Serbia, 26 Visegradska, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia.
Dario JelicDepartment of Cardiology, University Clinical Center of Serbia, 26 Visegradska, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia.
Milorad ZivkovicDepartment of Cardiology, University Clinical Center of Serbia, 26 Visegradska, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia.
Vladimir DedovicDepartment of Cardiology, University Clinical Center of Serbia, 26 Visegradska, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia.
Sanja StankovicCenter for Medical Biochemistry, University Clinical Center of Serbia, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia.ORCID 0000-0003-0890-535X
Milika AsaninDepartment of Cardiology, University Clinical Center of Serbia, 26 Visegradska, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia.
Vladan VukcevicDepartment of Cardiology, University Clinical Center of Serbia, 26 Visegradska, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia.
University of Belgrade · RSUniversity of Kragujevac · RS

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Although the widespread adoption of timely invasive reperfusion strategies over the last two decades has significantly improved the prognosis of patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), up to half of patients after angiographically successful primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) still have signs of inadequate reperfusion at the level of coronary microcirculation. This phenomenon, termed coronary microvascular dysfunction (CMD), has been associated with impaired prognosis. The aim of the present review is to describe the collected evidence on the occurrence of CMD following primary PCI, means of assessment and its association with the infarct size and clinical outcomes. Therefore, the practical role of invasive assessment of CMD in the catheterization laboratory, at the end of primary PCI, is emphasized, with an overview of available technologies including thermodilution- and Doppler-based methods, as well as recently developing functional coronary angiography. In this regard, we review the conceptual background and the prognostic value of coronary flow reserve (CFR), index of microcirculatory resistance (IMR), hyperemic microvascular resistance (HMR), pressure at zero flow (PzF) and angiography-derived IMR. Finally, the so-far investigated therapeutic strategies targeting coronary microcirculation after STEMI are revisited.

Indexed as

acute myocardial infarctioncoronary flow reservecoronary microvascular dysfunctionpercutaneous coronary intervention

Identifiers

PMID36836137
PMCPMC9962942
OpenAlexW4321249748

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