Open AccessMyocardial bridges: A prospective forensic autopsy study
Author(s) -
Jelena Micic-Labudovic,
Tatjana Atanasijević,
Vesna Popović,
Zoran Mihailović,
Slobodan Nikolić,
Dragana Puzović
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
srpski arhiv za celokupno lekarstvo
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.135
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 2406-0895
pISSN - 0370-8179
DOI - 10.2298/sarh1504153m
Subject(s) - myocardial bridge , medicine , autopsy , bridge (graph theory) , cardiology , artery , prospective cohort study , coronary angiography , sudden cardiac death , coronary artery disease , myocardial infarction
When the coronary artery, located subepicardially, submerges into the myocardium and appears again subepicardially after a short intramural course, it represents an embedded coronary artery, while the part of the myocardium above is a myocardial bridge.
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