Pharmacological coronary spasm provocative testing in clinical practice: A French Coronary Atheroma and Interventional Cardiology Group (GACI) position paper

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Picard, Fabien | Adjedj, Julien | Collet, Jean-Philippe | van Belle, Eric | Monsegu, Jacques | Karsenty, Bernard | Dupouy, Patrick | Quillot, Marine | Bonnet, Guillaume | Gautier, Alexandre | Cayla, Guillaume | Benamer, Hakim

Edité par CCSD ; Elsevier ; Société française de cardiologie [2008-....] -

International audience. Highlights  •VSA is common and is involved in many clinical scenarios.  •These include chronic and acute coronary syndromes, SCD, arrhythmia and syncope.  •VSA is underdiagnosed and provocative tests are rarely performed.  •A lack of uniform protocol decreases the use and performance of provocative tests.  •This accounts for VSA underestimation.  •This GACI position paper gives clear indications for provocative tests.  •The paper also addresses testing conditions, drug protocols and positivity criteria.

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