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Myocardial Bridging. A Congenital Variant as an Anatomic Risk Factor for Myocardial Infarction?

Raimund Erbel MD^*, Junbo Ge MD, and Stefan Möhlenkamp MD

From the Department of Cardiology, West-German Heart Center Essen, University Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany (R.E., S.M.), and Department of Cardiology, Zhongshan Hospital, Shanghai Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, Shanghai, China (J.G.).

^* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: erbel{at}uk-essen.de.

Key words: Editorials • arteriosclerosis • coronary disease • myocardial infarction • pathology • vessels

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