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Successful Surgical Resection of a Muscular Bridge in a Patient with Nonobstructive Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

A Case Report

Department of Cardiology, Ankara University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey

Çada Özdöl, MD

Department of Cardiology, Ankara University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey

Gülgün Pamir, MD

Department of Cardiology, Ankara University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey

Mustafa Kilickap, MD

Department of Cardiology, Ankara University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey

Dervi Oral, MD

Department of Cardiology, Ankara University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey

The authors report a case of myocardial bridging associated with nonobstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and severe intractable chest pain that was relieved by surgical resection of the muscular bridge. Surgical resection of a myocardial bridge may be considered in patients with refractory symptoms that can clearly be attributed to muscular bridge.

Angiology, Vol. 53, No. 2, 225-227 (2002)
DOI: 10.1177/000331970205300215


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