Update on myocardial bridging

Circulation

Volumn 106, Issue 20, 2002, Pages 2616-2622

  Möhlenkamp, Stefan ^a   Hort, Waldemar ^a   Ge, Junbo ^a   Erbel, Raimund ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anatomy; Arteries; Myocardial bridging; Tunneled artery

Indexed keywords

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEMODYNAMICS; HYPERTROPHIC OBSTRUCTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; MYOCARDIAL BRIDGING; MYOCARDIAL DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY;

CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY VESSEL ANOMALIES; CORONARY VESSELS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 0037069423     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.0000038420.14867.7A     Document Type: Short Survey

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