Outcome of Repair of Myocardial Bridging at the Time of Septal Myectomy Meghana R. Kunkala, MD, Hartzell V. Schaff, MD, Harold Burkhart, MD, Gurpreet S. Sandhu, MD, PhD, Daniel B. Spoon, MD, Steve R. Ommen, MD, Paul Sorajja, MD, Joseph A. Dearani, MD The Annals of Thoracic Surgery Volume 97, Issue 1, Pages 118-123 (January 2014) DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2013.07.079 Copyright © 2014 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 1 (A) Bridged segment of left anterior descending artery, approximately 40 mm in length. (B) Bridged segment of left anterior descending artery now unroofed. The double arrow shows the thickness of muscle that was overlying the left anterior descending artery. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2014 97, 118-123DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2013.07.079) Copyright © 2014 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 2 Survival at 5 years was 81.5% with no surgical intervention, 100% with myectomy alone, and 83.3% with myectomy plus unroofing. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2014 97, 118-123DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2013.07.079) Copyright © 2014 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions