Abstract Coronary artery disease (CAD) and ischemic heart disease (IHD) are often indistinctly used terms. Both combined have generated, over the past years, concerns about sex disparities in their presentation. From an epidemiological perspective, females have several disadvantages regarding the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of CAD. Most of the general cardiovascular risk factors affect women more frequently, or with a higher morbidity and mortality association. Besides, atypical manifestations of the disease and uncommon forms of CAD represent a diagnostic challenge for clinicians. Even if current treatments for CAD have no apparent sex bias, women representation in clinical trials and treatment patterns analyzed in clinical practice refuse this statement. Several disparities are caused by inevitable sex-particularities, but many of them are more social, cultural, and dogmatic beliefs that have to be addressed and overhaul. (CAD IHD (IHD terms generated years presentation perspective prevention diagnosis frequently association Besides clinicians bias statement sexparticularities, sexparticularities particularities, particularities sex-particularities social cultural overhaul

Abstract Supravalvular aortic stenosis is a left ventricular outflow tract obstructive lesion. It is the least common form of this group of lesions, which only represents 6% of congenital heart disease in children. This condition is commonly diagnosed during childhood; however we present the case of a 23 year old man who was taken to the hospital for having presented a sudden dyspnea episode with diaphoresis, chest pain without radiation and syncope. He was diagnosed with supravalvular aortic stenosis after echocardiography.

Resumen La estenosis aórtica supravalvular es una lesión congénita obstructiva del tracto de salida del ventrículo izquierdo. Es la forma menos frecuente dentro de este grupo de lesiones, las cuales, a su vez representan el 6% de las cardiopatías congénitas en pacientes pediátricos. Esta cardiopatía se relaciona más con pacientes pediátricos, sin embargo, presentamos el caso de un paciente masculino de 23 años de edad quien acudió al hospital por haber presentado episodio de disnea súbita en reposo, acompañada de diaforesis, dolor torácico opresivo sin irradiaciones y síncope. Se realizó un ecocardiograma transtorácico con el cual se diagnosticó estenosis aórtica supravalvular.

Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CVMR) is the best non invasive imaging technique for the diagnosis of congenital heart disease (CHD) as it gives important information concerning anatomy and function of the heart in the same exploration. This method is useful for the follow up of the patient with congenital heart disease. The most important benefits of CVMR are the non invasiveness of the same and the lack of ionic radiation. The objective of this article is to demonstrate that congenital heart disease can be diagnosed with CVMR with a higher precision compared with other cardiovascular imaging techniques.

La resonancia magnética cardiovascular (RMCV) es el método de imagen no invasivo ideal para el diagnóstico de las cardiopatías congénitas (CC) ya que ofrece importante información anatómica y funcional en el mismo estudio. Este método es útil para llevar un seguimiento a largo plazo del paciente con cardiopatía congénita. Las principales ventajas de la RMCV consisten en que es un estudio de imagen no invasivo y en que está exento de radiación ionizante. El objetivo de este artículo es el demostrar que las cardiopatías congénitas pueden ser diagnosticadas mediante la resonancia magnética con una mayor precisión comparada con otros métodos de imagen cardiovascular.