Myocardial bridging: A congenital variant as an anatomic risk factor for myocardial infarction?

Circulation

Volumn 120, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 357-359

  Erbel, Raimund ^a   Ge, Junbo ^b   Möhlenkamp, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b ZHONGSHAN HOSPITAL OF FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Arteriosclerosis; Coronary disease; Editorials; Myocardial infarction; Pathology; Vessels

Indexed keywords

GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; INOTROPIC AGENT;

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DYSLIPIDEMIA; EDITORIAL; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INCIDENCE; MORTALITY; MYOCARDIAL BRIDGING; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVOCATION TEST; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING;

CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL BRIDGING; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 68249101879     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: 15244539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.109.881367     Document Type: Editorial

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