title: Stress echocardiography pattern: a promising noninvasive test for detection of myocardial bridging with haemodynamic relevance.
abstract: : We reported a case of a young athlete with an underlying myocardial bridging in the left anterior descending coronary artery (LAD) causing myocardial ischemia suspected by contrast exercise stress echocardiography and confirmed by computed tomography coronary angiography. Our report demonstrated that a specific stress echocardiography pattern consisting of reversible focal buckling in the end-systolic to early-diastolic motion of the septum may suggest the presence of an underlying myocardial bridging in the LAD.
authors.affiliation: aDepartment of Cardiac, Thoracic, and Vascular Sciences, University of Padova bDivision of Cardiology, Camposampiero Hospital, Padova, Italy.
authors.forename: Mariachiara
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Siciliano
authors.forename: Federico
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Migliore
authors.forename: Piergiuseppe
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Piovesana
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D056352:Athletes; D000072226:Computed Tomography Angiography; D017023:Coronary Angiography / Q000379:methods; D016757:Death, Sudden, Cardiac / Q000209:etiology; D015150:Echocardiography, Doppler; D025401:Echocardiography, Stress / Q000379:methods*; D005080:Exercise Test; D006439:Hemodynamics; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D061330:Multidetector Computed Tomography; D054084:Myocardial Bridging / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000503:physiopathology; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D012307:Risk Factors; D012916:Soccer