This new definition of MINOCA, replacing the ‘I’ for infarction with the ‘I’ for injury, better reflects the working diagnosis nature of this terminology, whilst also emphasizing the need for further invasive and non-invasive testing to identify the final diagnosis, which can be epicardial, microvascular, myocardial, and non-cardiac.

Read the full article (European Heart Journal (2026) 00, 1–4) here!