%0 Journal Article
%T Heart disease in women: the role of imaging
%A J. J. Bax
%A P. van der Bijl
%A V. Delgado
%J Archive of "Netherlands Heart Journal".
%D 2019
%R 10.1007/s12471-019-1265-y
%X Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in European women. In addition, a greater percentage of women die from cardiovascular disease than do men (49% vs 45%, respectively). Certain cardiac diseases occur more often in women, and the essential diagnostic role of cardiac imaging will be illustrated by way of three representative conditions: (1) coronary microvascular disease (CMVD), (2) takotsubo cardiomyopathy and (3) mitral valve prolapse (MVP)
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6470240/