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A potential protective element of myocardial bridge against severe obstructive atherosclerosis in the whole coronary system

BACKGROUND: Myocardial bridge (MB) is generally described as a congenital benign variation. Previous studies have suggested that MB prevents atherosclerotic plaques from accumulating within the bridge segment but promotes coronary stenosis in the proximal segment adjacent to MB. However, it is still...

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Autores principales: Jiang, Lisheng, Zhang, Min, Zhang, Hong, Shen, Lan, Shao, Qin, Shen, Linghong, He, Ben
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5975619/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29843607
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12872-018-0847-8