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Robotic totally endoscopic off‐pump unroofing of left anterior descending coronary artery myocardial bridge: A report of two cases
Author(s) -
Mirzai Saeid,
Patel Brooke,
Balkhy Husam H.
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of cardiac surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.428
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1540-8191
pISSN - 0886-0440
DOI - 10.1111/jocs.14094
Subject(s) - medicine , myocardial bridge , asymptomatic , myocardial infarction , bridge (graph theory) , cardiology , artery , sudden cardiac death , myocardial bridging , presentation (obstetrics) , sudden death , surgery , coronary angiography
Myocardial bridge occurs when the myocardium courses external to an intramyocardial coronary artery, most commonly, the left anterior descending artery. The presentation can range from an asymptomatic, incidental finding to myocardial infarction, and sudden cardiac death. We report two cases of symptomatic MBs, which were treated with surgical unroofing, using a totally endoscopic robotic‐assisted off‐pump approach.