Why the study?
Does medical therapy relieve angina in a patient with a left circumflex coronary artery bridge?
Does medical therapy relieve angina in a patient with a left circumflex coronary artery bridge?
Left circumflex coronary artery bridging is a rare cause of exercise-induced angina that can be successfully managed with medical therapy.
May support medical therapy for rare left circumflex bridging angina; hypothesis-generating and should not yet change practice.
Myocardial bridging most frequently occurs on the left anterior descending coronary artery and may cause ischemia and related complications. Right coronary artery myocardial bridges (MB) are rare. We report a patient with an unusual coronary bridge, a left circumflex coronary artery bridge, who presented with exercise-induced angina pectoris that was relieved with medical therapy.
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