Myocardial bridges and obstructive coronary atherosclerosis
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Published:2020-03-18
Issue:1
Volume:17
Page:38-48
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ISSN:2524-2350
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Container-title:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Medical series
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language:
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Short-container-title:Vescì Nac. akad. navuk Belarusì, Ser. med. navuk
Author:
Kabak S. L., Melnichenko Yu. M.1, Gordionok D. M.1, Kalenchic T. I.1, Haidzel I. K.2, Yudina O. A.3
Affiliation:
1. Belarusian State Medical University 2. Republican Scientific and Practical Center “Cardiology” 3. “Republican Clinical Medical Center” of the Office of the President of the Republic of Belarus
Abstract
The myocardial bridge (MB) is a congenital anomaly, in which a segment of a coronary artery courses through the myocardium. The aim of the study was to establish the location of myocardial bridges and the severity of atherosclerotic lesions of the coronary arteries in patients with coronary heart disease symptoms and in individuals who are the potential heart donors for transplantation. The data of the multislice computed tomography coronary angiography of the patients of the Republican Scientific and Practical Centre “Cardiology” from 2016 to 2018 were included in this study. 324 hearts of the deceased donors, which had not been used for orthotopic transplantation, were studied. According to the autopsy and the CT coronary angiography, the myocardial bridges were localized mainly in the left anterior descending artery of the left coronary artery (LCA). In 7.4 % of cases, MBs were found in a distal portion of the intermediate branch of LCA, in the left postero-lateral branch, in the right coronary artery, in the first diagonal artery, as well as along the obtuse marginal artery and the left circumflex coronary artery. In 36 % of cases, the identified bridges were considered as hemodynamically significant with regard to the length of the tunneled artery segment and its depth. Microscopic examination of the tunneled fragments of the coronary arteries in 4.9 % of cases showed the initial signs of damage of the vessel wall in the form of fibromuscular dysplasia and lipidosis. According to the CT coronary angiography results, no causal relationship has been established between the presence of MBs and atherosclerosis in the subepicardial segments of the coronary arteries.
Publisher
Publishing House Belorusskaya Nauka
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