VEGFA and myocardial infarction: Cardiac microvascular endothelial cells (CMECs) play a central role in cardiac angiogenesis following MI due to their potent ability to initiate angiogenesis and to stimulate the secretion of multi‐angiogenic factors, such as vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and platelet‐derived growth factor (PDGF), which act as autocrine and paracrine factors (Edelberg et al., 1998; Levéen et al., 1994).