Barts Myocardial Infarction With Non-Obstructed Coronary Arteries (MINOCA) Registry

This study utilises a prospectively collected clinical database. All patients referred to the Interventional Cardiology team are included onto this database. No patients will be contacted solely for research purposes. Patients will not have any investigations/procedures performed for research purposes. All data will only be available for access by named members of the Interventional Cardiology team. Data will be anonymised by the clinical care team and passed onto the research team before it is used and no patient identifiable information will be used in the analysis of the study or the publications of its results.

The database started in April 2015 and has collected data on all patients so far and will continue to do so for the duration of clinical work by the Interventional Cardiology team. As a result this study will continue indefinitely.

This study will include all patients admitted to or reviewed in clinic at Barts Health NHS Trust with either a diagnosis of MINOCA or who do not have a clear cause of a troponin rise. These patients range from young adults to the elderly and will include any patient ≥16 years of age. Patients who are followed up with and without any intervention (i.e. both medically managed patients as well as patients undergoing intervention) are equally as important and therefore the investigators shall include both groups of patients.

Patients will be included from referrals made by other clinicians either as in or outpatients. All these patients have their clinical data captured on a database or hospital based clinical programme.

This study aims to assess, in a real-world setting, the safety, efficacy and feasibility of further investigations in patients diagnosed with MINOCA among all patients with coronary artery disease.