Myocardial bridging of the anterior interventricular coronary artery in the setting of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in children and adolescents

Cardiology in the Young

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 414-416

  Sebening, Christian ^a   Gorenflo, Matthias ^a   Ulmer, Herbert E ^a   Brockmeier, Konrad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTERY COMPRESSION; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHILD; CORONARY ARTERY; HEART MUSCLE; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; REVIEW; SUDDEN DEATH; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; MALE; PATHOLOGY; STENOSIS, OCCLUSION AND OBSTRUCTION;

CARDIOMYOPATHY, HYPERTROPHIC; CHILD; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY VESSELS; HUMANS; MALE; MYOCARDIUM;

EID: 0036654666     PISSN: 10479511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s104795110001307x     Document Type: Review

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