title: Myocardial bridge: The cause of angina in a young man.
abstract: Myocardial bridging is basically the systolic narrowing of epicardial coronary arteries, secondary to their tunneled course in myocardium. Though it is a benign condition it can have the symptoms like acute coronary syndrome, arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death. We report a 32-year-old male, who presented with typical exertional angina, had positive exercise treadmill and thallium-201 test. Coronary angiography revealed myocardial bridge of distal left anterior descending coronary artery. He was put on β-blockers and was doing well at 8 years of follow-up.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research, Chandigarh, India.
authors.forename: Rajesh
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Vijayvergiya
authors.forename: Bhagwant Rai
authors.initials: BR
authors.lastname: Mittal
keywords: Angina; left anterior descending artery; myocardial bridge; myocardial ischemia; single photon emission computed tomography; thallium-201