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Descriptor English: Myocardial Bridging
Descriptor Spanish: Puente Miocárdico
Descriptor puente miocárdico
Scope note: Malformación caracterizada por la existencia de un puente muscular sobre un segmento de las ARTERIAS CORONARIAS. Las contracciones sistólicas del puente muscular pueden producir estenosis coronaria, compresión coronaria, ISQUEMIA MIOCÁRDICA, INFARTO DEL MIOCARDIO y MUERTE SÚBITA CARDIACA.
Descriptor Portuguese: Ponte Miocárdica
Descriptor French: Pont myocardique
Entry term(s): Bridging, Myocardial
Bridgings, Myocardial
Myocardial Bridgings
Tree number(s): C14.240.400.210.500
C14.280.400.210.500
C16.131.240.400.210.500
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D054084
Scope note: A malformation that is characterized by a muscle bridge over a segment of the CORONARY ARTERIES. Systolic contractions of the muscle bridge can lead to narrowing of coronary artery; coronary compression; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; and SUDDEN CARDIAC DEATH.
Allowable Qualifiers: BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CI chemically induced
CL classification
CO complications
DG diagnostic imaging
DH diet therapy
DI diagnosis
DT drug therapy
EC economics
EH ethnology
EM embryology
EN enzymology
EP epidemiology
ET etiology
GE genetics
HI history
IM immunology
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
MO mortality
NU nursing
PA pathology
PC prevention & control
PP physiopathology
PS parasitology
PX psychology
RH rehabilitation
RT radiotherapy
SU surgery
TH therapy
UR urine
VE veterinary
VI virology
Previous Indexing: Coronary Disease (1963-1975)
Coronary Vessel Anomalies (1976-2007)
Public MeSH Note: 2008
History Note: 2008
DeCS ID: 52603
Unique ID: D054084
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Date Established: 2008/01/01
Date of Entry: 2007/07/09
Myocardial Bridging - Preferred
Concept UI M0501462
Scope note A malformation that is characterized by a muscle bridge over a segment of the CORONARY ARTERIES. Systolic contractions of the muscle bridge can lead to narrowing of coronary artery; coronary compression; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; and SUDDEN CARDIAC DEATH.
Preferred term Myocardial Bridging
Entry term(s) Bridging, Myocardial
Bridgings, Myocardial
Myocardial Bridgings



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