Why the study?
Myocardial bridging is rarely reported or sought during routine autopsy in the Indian context, even in studies of sudden natural cardiac deaths.
Myocardial bridging should be considered as a potential primary cause of sudden cardiac death in young adults, especially following exercise, when other significant autopsy findings are absent.
Myocardial bridging merits consideration in forensic evaluation of exercise-related sudden death; leaves open its causal role in young adults.
Myocardial Bridging is one rare congenital anomaly which has been neither reported frequently nor looked for during routine autopsy in Indian context. One of the reasons may be lack of awareness about this finding. Even many autopsy studies done on sudden natural cardiac deaths, do not focus to find and report this anomaly. We hereby report one such case, where a young adult male succumbed to death following exercise, and only significant autopsy finding was Myocardial bridging. Even though myocardial bridging has not been labelled as primary cause of death by researchers, it is one such anomaly which leads to events predisposing angina, ischemia and arrhythmia leading to cardiac arrest.
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