TY - JOUR
T1 - Myocardial bridges and competitive sports fitness between past and future
AU - Assisi, Elio
AU - Libener, Elettra
AU - Grossgasteiger, Simone
AU - Marine, Ottavio
AU - Resnyak, Stefan
N1 - Lehr-KH Bozen
PY - 2023/3/3
Y1 - 2023/3/3
N2 - The myocardial bridge is an intramural course of a coronary artery in which a more or less long section of a coronary branch, instead of running normally on the epicardial surface of the heart, deepens early in the myocardium, coming to be surrounded by a ring or sleeve of muscle fi ber cells that, contracting in systole, can cause an ab-extrinsic “throttling” of the artery. The guidelines for granting eligibility for competitive sports have evolved over time: from 2009, when any case of myocardial bridging indicated exclusion of eligibility, to today, when only significant bridges, i.e. ‘long’ bridges > 1 cm and > 3 mm deep, place a restriction on competitive sports activity.
AB - The myocardial bridge is an intramural course of a coronary artery in which a more or less long section of a coronary branch, instead of running normally on the epicardial surface of the heart, deepens early in the myocardium, coming to be surrounded by a ring or sleeve of muscle fi ber cells that, contracting in systole, can cause an ab-extrinsic “throttling” of the artery. The guidelines for granting eligibility for competitive sports have evolved over time: from 2009, when any case of myocardial bridging indicated exclusion of eligibility, to today, when only significant bridges, i.e. ‘long’ bridges > 1 cm and > 3 mm deep, place a restriction on competitive sports activity.
KW - Koronare CT-Angiographie
KW - Belastungsangina
KW - Ischämische Herzkrankheit
KW - Ischaemic heart disease
KW - Coronary CT angiography
KW - Exercise angina
M3 - Original Article
SN - 2455-2976
VL - 2023
SP - 12
EP - 16
JO - Journal of Cardiovascular Medicine and Cardiology
JF - Journal of Cardiovascular Medicine and Cardiology
IS - 1
ER -