The Challenge of Myocardial Bridging

Samit M Shah^{1

2}, Odayme Quesada^{3

4}, Timothy D Henry⁴

Affiliations

¹ Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
² Department of Medicine, VA Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven, Connecticut.
³ Women's Heart Center, The Christ Hospital Heart and Vascular Institute, Cincinnati, Ohio.
⁴ The Carl and Edyth Lindner Center for Research and Education at The Christ Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Editorial

Samit M Shah et al. J Soc Cardiovasc Angiogr Interv. 2023.

. 2023 Jan 4;2(2):100545.

doi: 10.1016/j.jscai.2022.100545. eCollection 2023 Mar-Apr.

Samit M Shah^{1

2}, Odayme Quesada^{3

4}, Timothy D Henry⁴

¹ Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
² Department of Medicine, VA Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven, Connecticut.
³ Women's Heart Center, The Christ Hospital Heart and Vascular Institute, Cincinnati, Ohio.
⁴ The Carl and Edyth Lindner Center for Research and Education at The Christ Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio.

No abstract available

Keywords: coronary artery; myocardial bridging; percutaneous coronary intervention; physiology.

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