PURPOSE To prospectively assess the depiction rate and morphologic features of myocardial bridging (MB) of coronary arteries with 64-section computed tomographic (CT) coronary angiography in comparison to conventional coronary angiography. MATERIALS AND METHODS Patients were simultaneously enrolled in a prospective study comparing CT and conventional coronary angiography, for which ethics com...

Myocardial bridging is recognized as an anatomical variation of the human coronary circulation in which an epicardial artery lies in the myocardium for part of its course. Thus, the vessel is ‘bridged’ by myocardium. The present study is aimed to studying presence of myocardial bridges over coronary arteries and their branches by dissection method. A total of 50 adult human hearts (irrespective...

BACKGROUND/AIM Our research was performed to evaluate the influences of the myocardial bridgings of coronary arteries on the myocardial and coronary arteries wall structure chages, that could be a reason for multiple heart malfunctions. METHODS We analyzed the autopsy material, collected during a five-years period, and especially the group of 575 cases with the major aim to diagnose mors natu...