Symptomatic myocardial bridges: Overview of ischemic mechanisms and current diagnostic and treatment strategies

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 351-359

  Bourassa, Martial G ^a   Butnaru, Ady ^a   Lespérance, Jacques ^a   Tardif, Jean Claude ^a  

^a MONTREAL HEART INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; INOTROPIC AGENT; NITRATE;

ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; CORONARY STENT; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOTOMY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

EID: 0037419767     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(02)02768-7     Document Type: Review

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