Usefulness of transthoracic Doppler echocardiography for noninvasive assessment of coronary blood flow in a patient with symptomatic myocardial bridging.
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چکیده
Myocardial bridging (MB) is a congenital anomaly characterized by systolic compression of the tunnelled arterial segment. MB may cause myocardial ischaemia due to abnormal coronary blood flow. We report a case of MB in which transthoracic Doppler echocardiography was used to evaluate the long-term effect of beta-blocker therapy on abnormal coronary blood flow. In this case, beta-blocker therapy with bisoprolol (5.0 mg/day) for 1 month eliminated the patient's symptoms and normalized coronary blood flow through the tunnelled arterial segment.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- European journal of echocardiography : the journal of the Working Group on Echocardiography of the European Society of Cardiology
دوره 12 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2011