Myocardial Bridge-Congenital Anomaly

  • J.VasudevaReddy1, S.Lokanadham2 1Rtd.Principal & Professor, Department of Anatomy, Sri Venkateswara Medical College, Tirupati, Andhrapradesh. 2Department of Anatomy, ViswaBharathi Medical College, Kurnool, Andhrapradesh.

Abstract

Myocardial bridging is a congenital coronary anomaly defined as a segment of a major epicardial coronary artery goes intramurally through the myocardium beneath the muscle bridge. In our study we dissected 20 human heart specimens to observe the myocardial bridges over the left anterior descending branch of left coronary artery. Out of 20 specimens the myocardial bridges are located at a distance between 21-30 mm in 14 heart specimens (70%), 31-40 mm distance in 4 heart specimens (20%) and 41-50 mm in 2 heart specimens (10%) were observed. Myocardial bridge has been associated with angina, arrhythmia, depressed left ventricular function, myocardial stunning, and early death after cardiac transplantation, sudden death. The results of the study were compared with other literatures and significance variations are noted.

 

KEYWORDS:  myocardial bridge, cardiac pathology, tunnelled artery

Published
2013-02-27
How to Cite
S.Lokanadham2J. (2013). Myocardial Bridge-Congenital Anomaly. Journal of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Research, 2(1). Retrieved from http://jbpr.in/index.php/jbpr/article/view/435
Issue
Vol. 2 No. 1 (2013)
Section
Research Articles

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