Microscopic Analysis of the Myocardial Bridges and their Relationship with Atheromatous Plaque

SUMMARY: Most histopathological studies have reported that the segment of the coronary artery below the myocardial bridge does not present atheromatous plaque, while the segment proximal to the myocardial bridge may have it. The aim of this study was to evaluate the microscopic environment of myocar...

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Autores principales:	Gómez,Fabián A, Forero,Pedro L, Ballesteros,Luis E
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Sociedad Chilena de Anatomía 2021
Materias:	perivascular adipose tissue,tunica intima myocardial bridge atheromatous plaque endothelium
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spelling	oai:scielo:S0717-950220210001000702021-03-01Microscopic Analysis of the Myocardial Bridges and their Relationship with Atheromatous PlaqueGómez,Fabián AForero,Pedro LBallesteros,Luis E perivascular adipose tissue,tunica intima myocardial bridge atheromatous plaque endothelium SUMMARY: Most histopathological studies have reported that the segment of the coronary artery below the myocardial bridge does not present atheromatous plaque, while the segment proximal to the myocardial bridge may have it. The aim of this study was to evaluate the microscopic environment of myocardial bridges. This descriptive study was carried out with 60 hearts of individuals who underwent autopsy at the National Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences in Bucaramanga-Colombia. For each specimen, the coronary arteries and their branches were dissected, removing the subepicardial adipose tissue to identify the myocardial bridges and obtain histological sections of the compromised arterial branches. The presence of myocardial bridges was observed in 22 hearts (36.7%) with a length of 17.31 + 4.41 mm and a thickness of 904.57 + 312.27 mm. The coronary vessel caliber at the prepontine level was 246.57 + 49.33 mm and was significantly higher than in the pontine (188.92 + 60.55 mm) and postpontin (190.40 + 47 mm) segments (p=0.001 for both values). Atheromatous plaque was observed in the prepontine segment in 12 cases (46.15 %) and in 8 samples (30.76%) at the pontine level, but in this segment, there was slight damage to the vascular endothelium, or phase I level. The thickness of the tunica intima in the cases with atheromatous plaque was 15.68 + 13.39 mm and that of the plaque-free segments was 5.10 + 4.40 mm (p=0.005), and in the pontine segment the overlying periarterial adipose tissue had a thickness of 72.01 + 69.44 mm, which was higher than the other three locations (p=0.005). The morphometry of the perivascular fat pad and the presence of phase I atheromatous plaque are the main contributions of this study to the histology of myocardial bridges.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessSociedad Chilena de AnatomíaInternational Journal of Morphology v.39 n.1 20212021-02-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0717-95022021000100070en10.4067/S0717-95022021000100070
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spellingShingle	perivascular adipose tissue,tunica intima myocardial bridge atheromatous plaque endothelium Gómez,Fabián A Forero,Pedro L Ballesteros,Luis E Microscopic Analysis of the Myocardial Bridges and their Relationship with Atheromatous Plaque
description	SUMMARY: Most histopathological studies have reported that the segment of the coronary artery below the myocardial bridge does not present atheromatous plaque, while the segment proximal to the myocardial bridge may have it. The aim of this study was to evaluate the microscopic environment of myocardial bridges. This descriptive study was carried out with 60 hearts of individuals who underwent autopsy at the National Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences in Bucaramanga-Colombia. For each specimen, the coronary arteries and their branches were dissected, removing the subepicardial adipose tissue to identify the myocardial bridges and obtain histological sections of the compromised arterial branches. The presence of myocardial bridges was observed in 22 hearts (36.7%) with a length of 17.31 + 4.41 mm and a thickness of 904.57 + 312.27 mm. The coronary vessel caliber at the prepontine level was 246.57 + 49.33 mm and was significantly higher than in the pontine (188.92 + 60.55 mm) and postpontin (190.40 + 47 mm) segments (p=0.001 for both values). Atheromatous plaque was observed in the prepontine segment in 12 cases (46.15 %) and in 8 samples (30.76%) at the pontine level, but in this segment, there was slight damage to the vascular endothelium, or phase I level. The thickness of the tunica intima in the cases with atheromatous plaque was 15.68 + 13.39 mm and that of the plaque-free segments was 5.10 + 4.40 mm (p=0.005), and in the pontine segment the overlying periarterial adipose tissue had a thickness of 72.01 + 69.44 mm, which was higher than the other three locations (p=0.005). The morphometry of the perivascular fat pad and the presence of phase I atheromatous plaque are the main contributions of this study to the histology of myocardial bridges.
author	Gómez,Fabián A Forero,Pedro L Ballesteros,Luis E
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title	Microscopic Analysis of the Myocardial Bridges and their Relationship with Atheromatous Plaque
title_short	Microscopic Analysis of the Myocardial Bridges and their Relationship with Atheromatous Plaque
title_full	Microscopic Analysis of the Myocardial Bridges and their Relationship with Atheromatous Plaque
title_fullStr	Microscopic Analysis of the Myocardial Bridges and their Relationship with Atheromatous Plaque
title_full_unstemmed	Microscopic Analysis of the Myocardial Bridges and their Relationship with Atheromatous Plaque
title_sort	microscopic analysis of the myocardial bridges and their relationship with atheromatous plaque
publisher	Sociedad Chilena de Anatomía
publishDate	2021
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Microscopic Analysis of the Myocardial Bridges and their Relationship with Atheromatous Plaque

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