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Posterolateral Branch of Circumflex Artery: An Extremely Rare Location for Myocardial Bridging
Author(s) -
Bahadır Şarlı,
Şaban Keleşoğlu,
Ahmet Oğuz Baktır
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
erciyes medical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.101
H-Index - 11
ISSN - 1300-199X
DOI - 10.5152/etd.2014.7636
Subject(s) - myocardial bridging , circumflex , bridging (networking) , medicine , cardiology , artery , computer science , coronary angiography , computer security , myocardial infarction
Myocardial bridging is a rare congenital coronary artery abnormality in which the epicardial coronary artery is covered by myo- cardial muscle tissue at a distance during its course. Myocardial infarction, ventricular arrhythmias, and sudden cardiac death have been associated with myocardial bridging. While myocardial bridges are usually located on the left anterior descending artery, left circumflex artery involvement is reported in a few cases. Here, we present a patient admitted to the coronary care unit with unstable angina pectoris having multivessel coronary artery disease and myocardial bridging on the posterolateral branch of the left circumflex artery, for the first time.

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