Response to Letter Regarding Article, “Anatomic Properties of Myocardial Bridge Predisposing to Myocardial Infarction”

Yukio Ishikawa,Yoshikiyo Akasaka,Kinji Ito,Toshiharu Ishii,Koyu Suzuki,Mieko Fujiwara,Takafumi Ogawa,Kazuto Yamazaki,Hitoshi Niino,Michio Tanaka,Kentaro Ogata,Shojiroh Morinaga,Yoshiro Ebihara,Yutaka Kawahara,Hitoshi Sugiura,Toshiro Takimoto,Akio Komatsu,Toshihito Shinagawa,Kazuhiro Taki,Hideaki Satoh,Kazuaki Yamada,Maki Yanagida-Iida,Reiko Shimokawa,Kazuyuki Shimada,Chiaki Nishimura

Response to Letter Regarding Article, “Anatomic Properties of Myocardial Bridge Predisposing to Myocardial Infarction”

2010

We appreciate Dr Poullis’ interest in our study on myocardial bridge (MB) predisposing to myocardial infarction.1 The MB-positive group without myocardial infarction in that study included case subjects who had short and thin MBs and atherosclerosis was more extensive in the left anterior descending coronary artery proximal to MBs that were long and thick.2 Hemodynamic change by retrograde …

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Hemodynamics
Myocardial infarction
Myocardial bridge
Anterior Descending Coronary Artery
Electrocardiography in myocardial infarction
Internal medicine
Diabetes mellitus
Medicine
Cardiology

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