This preclinical study investigates the macroscopic appearance of myocardial bridging in animal models and correlates it with coronary arteriography findings.
Provides animal-model correlation of myocardial bridging with arteriography; leaves open translation to human imaging and practice.
Myocardial bridging producing an intramural coronary artery segment has only recently received attention.Previous mention of the phenomenon has been made by GEIRINGER (1951), EDWARDS, BURNSIDES, SWARM and LANSING (1956), and by POLACEK (1961).PORSTMANN and IWIG (1960) have indicated that these intramural segments of the artery may be recognized by means of serial coronary angiography.However, anatomic confirmation of this radiographic finding was not presented by these authors.Since this muscular formation which overbridges the arterial course may indeed influence the course and contour of the arterial lumen, the present study is concerned with the macroscopic appearance of the intramural coronary segment in the experimental animal.Attempts to correlate these observations with post-mortem findings following coronary arteriography in these animals have been made.
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