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    <journal-meta>
      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">97</journal-id>
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        <journal-title xml:lang="en">Bulgarian Cardiology</journal-title>
        <abbrev-journal-title xml:lang="en">Bulgarian Cardiology</abbrev-journal-title>
      </journal-title-group>
      <issn pub-type="ppub">1310-7488</issn>
      <issn pub-type="epub">2683-1015</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Bulgarian Society of Cardiology</publisher-name>
      </publisher>
    </journal-meta>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.3897/bgcardio.26.e51992</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">51992</article-id>
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        <subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
          <subject>Research Article</subject>
        </subj-group>
        <subj-group subj-group-type="scientific_subject">
          <subject>Ischemic Heart Disease (исхемична болест на сърцето)</subject>
        </subj-group>
      </article-categories>
      <title-group>
        <article-title>Impairment of coronary flow and left ventricular function in patients with slow coronary flow phenomenon and other types of microvascular angina</article-title>
      </title-group>
      <contrib-group content-type="authors">
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Denchev</surname>
            <given-names>Stefan</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A1">1</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Emilova</surname>
            <given-names>Niya</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:type="simple">niaemilova@yahoo.com</email>
          <uri content-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1878-9807</uri>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A2">2</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Gospodinova</surname>
            <given-names>Mariana</given-names>
          </name>
          <uri content-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1328-245X</uri>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A1">1</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Dimitrov</surname>
            <given-names>Simeon</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A3">3</xref>
        </contrib>
      </contrib-group>
      <aff id="A1">
        <label>1</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">Medical Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Clinic of Cardiology, Sofia, Bulgaria</addr-line>
        <institution>Medical Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Clinic of Cardiology</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Sofia</addr-line>
        <country>Bulgaria</country>
      </aff>
      <aff id="A2">
        <label>2</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">National Heart Hospital, Sofia, Bulgaria</addr-line>
        <institution>National Heart Hospital</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Sofia</addr-line>
        <country>Bulgaria</country>
      </aff>
      <aff id="A3">
        <label>3</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">Clinic of Cardiology, MHAT "Uni Hospital", Panagyurishte, Bulgaria</addr-line>
        <institution>Clinic of Cardiology, MHAT "Uni Hospital"</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Panagyurishte</addr-line>
        <country>Bulgaria</country>
      </aff>
      <author-notes>
        <fn fn-type="corresp">
          <p>Corresponding author: Niya Emilova (<email xlink:type="simple">niaemilova@yahoo.com</email>).</p>
        </fn>
        <fn fn-type="edited-by">
          <p>Academic editor: Nikolay Runev</p>
        </fn>
      </author-notes>
      <pub-date pub-type="collection">
        <year>2020</year>
      </pub-date>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>06</day>
        <month>07</month>
        <year>2020</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>26</volume>
      <issue>2</issue>
      <fpage>72</fpage>
      <lpage>78</lpage>
      <uri content-type="arpha" xlink:href="http://openbiodiv.net/2A95A374-DD88-5BE2-A09C-60DC49FF6EF4">2A95A374-DD88-5BE2-A09C-60DC49FF6EF4</uri>
      <uri content-type="zenodo_dep_id" xlink:href="https://zenodo.org/record/3943227">3943227</uri>
      <history>
        <date date-type="received">
          <day>12</day>
          <month>03</month>
          <year>2020</year>
        </date>
        <date date-type="accepted">
          <day>28</day>
          <month>05</month>
          <year>2020</year>
        </date>
      </history>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-statement>Stefan Denchev, Niya Emilova, Mariana Gospodinova, Simeon Dimitrov</copyright-statement>
        <license license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple">
          <license-p>This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.</license-p>
        </license>
      </permissions>
      <abstract>
        <label>Abstract</label>
        <p><bold> </bold><bold>Purpose:</bold> We aimed at assessing the impairment in coronary flow and left ventricular function in patients without obstructive coronary disease on anti-ischemic treatment admitted with diagnosis unstable angina. <bold>Material and methods:</bold> The epicardial coronary flow was evaluated in 71 patients with unstable angina in absence of coronary stenosis &gt;50% applying the methods the corrected TIMI frame count and systolic arrest of coronary flow at coronary angiography. The abnormalities in the diastolic function were assessed by echocardiography using PW-Doppler of the diastolic mitral flow and tissue Doppler imaging. <bold>Results:</bold>  The early diastolic velocity of interventricular septum (E’sept) and left ventricular free wall (E’ lat) were reduced in the SF<sub>LVH</sub> group compared to SCFP and the patients with normal coronary flow. Significant difference was found in between the patients with SF<sub>LVH</sub> and SCFP regarding DT and A-wave velocity in sub-analysis. The epicardial coronary flow of the patients with SF<sub>LVH</sub> was as tendency impaired compared to SCFP. The therapy with β- blocker alone or combined with calcium channel blocker or nitrate did not influence either cardiac function or coronary flow in this analysis. <bold>Conclusion:</bold>  Slower left ventricular relaxation is typical for the patients with microvascular angina and left ventricular hypertrophy associated with hypertension on treatment compared to SCFP and patients with normal coronary flow.</p>
      </abstract>
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