• Korean Journal of Radiology
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• 제22권12호
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• pp.1964-1973
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• 2021

Objective: To investigate the diagnostic performance of CT fractional flow reserve (CT-FFR) for myocardial bridging-related ischemia using dynamic CT myocardial perfusion imaging (CT-MPI) as a reference standard. Materials and Methods: Dynamic CT-MPI and coronary CT angiography (CCTA) data obtained from 498 symptomatic patients were retrospectively reviewed. Seventy-five patients (mean age ± standard deviation, 62.7 ± 13.2 years; 48 males) who showed myocardial bridging in the left anterior descending artery without concomitant obstructive stenosis on the imaging were included. The change in CT-FFR across myocardial bridging (ΔCT-FFR, defined as the difference in CT-FFR values between the proximal and distal ends of the myocardial bridging) in different cardiac phases, as well as other anatomical parameters, were measured to evaluate their performance for diagnosing myocardial bridging-related myocardial ischemia using dynamic CT-MPI as the reference standard (myocardial blood flow < 100 mL/100 mL/min or myocardial blood flow ratio ≤ 0.8). Results: ΔCT-FFR_systolic (ΔCT-FFR calculated in the best systolic phase) was higher in patients with vs. without myocardial bridging-related myocardial ischemia (median [interquartile range], 0.12 [0.08-0.17] vs. 0.04 [0.01-0.07], p < 0.001), while CT-FFR_systolic (CT-FFR distal to the myocardial bridging calculated in the best systolic phase) was lower (0.85 [0.81-0.89] vs. 0.91 [0.88-0.96], p = 0.043). In contrast, ΔCT-FFR_diastolic (ΔCT-FFR calculated in the best diastolic phase) and CT-FFR_diastolic (CT-FFR distal to the myocardial bridging calculated in the best diastolic phase) did not differ significantly. Receiver operating characteristic curve analysis showed that ΔCT-FFR_systolic had largest area under the curve (0.822; 95% confidence interval, 0.717-0.901) for identifying myocardial bridging-related ischemia. ΔCT-FFR_systolic had the highest sensitivity (91.7%) and negative predictive value (NPV) (97.8%). ΔCT-FFR_diastolic had the highest specificity (85.7%) for diagnosing myocardial bridging-related ischemia. The positive predictive values of all CT-related parameters were low. Conclusion: ΔCT-FFR_systolic reliably excluded myocardial bridging-related ischemia with high sensitivity and NPV. Myocardial bridging showing positive CT-FFR results requires further evaluation.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제40권9호
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• pp.629-632
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• 2007

심근교는 증상과 관련없이 우연히 발견되는 경우가 대부분이지만 드물게 협심증, 심근 경색, 심실성부정맥 등의 증상을 유발한다. 증상이 있는 심근교 환자에서 약물치료가 효과적이지 않을 경우 스텐트 삽입술, 동맥상부 심근 절개술 혹은 관상동맥우회술 등을 시행하고 있으나 명확한 치료지침은 없는 상태이다. 저자들이 경험한 심근교에 대한 수술 증례 2예를 문헌고찰과 함께 보고하는 바이다.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제32권2호
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• pp.181-184
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• 1999

심근교에 의한 관상동맥협착은 드문 질환으로 흉통, 심근경색 및 심실세동을 유발할 수 있다. 약물치료에 반응이 없는 심근교는 심근절개술의 적응이 된다. 저자들은 흉골부분절개술하 심폐바이패스없이 좌전하행지부위에 심근절개술을 성공적으로 시행하였기에 보고하는 바이다

• 보험의학회지
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• 제31권1호
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• pp.10-14
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• 2012

The importance of the diseases which are differentiated with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) cannot be overemphasized in insurance medicine. Although there are lots of diseases similar with AMI, in this paper, 5 diseases were described; Myocardial bridging, cocaine toxicity, myocarditis, cardiac syndrome X, and Takotsubo syndrome. Costs of the interventions like coronary angiography or echocardiography are relatively low in Korea compared to western countries. Therefore, detection of those diseases has been increased recently and illegal drug addiction also has been increased probably due to globalization. In conclusion, the knowledge of those diseases dealt with this article could be helpful for the person who is related to insurance medicine.

• 대한중풍순환신경학회지
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.74-80
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• 2009

Myocardial bridging, a congenital coronary anomaly, is present when a segment of a major epicardial coronary artery, runs intramurally through the myocardium. So with each systole, the coronary artery is compressed. It has been associated with angina, arrhythmia, myocardial infarction and sudden cardiac death. This is a case of a 39-year-old woman who was diagnosed myocardial bridge. She complained of recurrent chest pain, palpitation. We diagnosed her as Gyesimtong(JiXiTong, 悸心痛), and prescribed Jeongkicheonhyang-tang(正氣天香湯). After treatment, all of the symptoms had improved and have not recurred for 18 months. This case suggests that oriental medicine therapy can be applicable to improve in symptoms of myocardial bridge.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제31권12호
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• pp.1238-1242
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• 1998

심근교각을 해부학적인 정의을 하면 심외막의 관상동맥 주행중 국한된 부분의 관상동맥이 심근섬유에 의해 둘러싸여 있는 것을 말한다. 이질환은 주로 관상동맥 조영술에서 심근수축시 관상동맥이 좁아지거나 또는 압박효과을 나타내기 때문에 알게된다. 관상동맥중 좌전하행지의 중간부위에 가장 많이 발생 한다. 심근교각은 허혈 효과을 가지고 있어서 건강한 사람에서 협심증, 심근경색, 혹은 사망의 원인이 되기도 한다. 저자들은 좌전하행지 중간부분의 압박으로 협심증을 호소한 2례의 환자을 치험하고 보고 하고자 한다. 수술은 심폐 우회술하에 좌전하행지 동맥상부을 덮은 심근에 근절개술을 시행하였다. 수술후 협심증과 압박효과는 호전되었다.

• 대한핵의학회지
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• 제27권2호
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• pp.210-217
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• 1993

To compare the myocardial viability in patients suffering from total occlusion of the right coronry artery (RCA) with the angiographic collaterals, intracoronary injection of Thallium-201 (T1-201) was done to 14 coronary artery disease (CAD) patients (pts) with total occlusion of RCA and into four normal subjects for control. All 14 CAD pts had Grade 2 or 3 collateral circulations. There were 14 male and 4 females, and their ages ranged from 31 to 70 years. In nine pts, T1-201 was injected into left main coronary artery (LCA) ($300{\sim}350{\mu}Ci$) to evaluate the myocardial viability of RCA territory through collateral circulations. The remaining five pts received T1-201 into RCA ($200{\sim}250{\mu}Ci$) because two had intraarterial bridging collaterals and three had previous successful PTCA. Planar & SPECT myocardial perfusion images were obtained 30 minutes, and four to five hours after T1-201 injection. Intravenous T1-201 reinjection (six pts) or $^{99m}Tc-MIBI$ (two pts) were also performed in eight CAD pts. Intracoronary myocardial perfusion images were compared with intravenous T1-201 (IV T1-201) images, ECG, and ventriculography. Intracoronary T1-201 images proved to be superior to that of IV T1-201 due to better myocardial to background uptake ratio and more effective in the detection of viable tissue. We also found that perfusion defects were smaller on intracoronary T1-201 images than those on the IV T1-201. All of the 14 CAD pts had either mostly viable myocardium (seven pts) or large area of T1-201 perfusion (seven pts) in RCA territory, however ventriculographic wall motion and ECG did not correlate well with intracoronary myocardial perfusion images. In conclusion, total RCA occlusion patients with well developed collateral circulation had large area of viable myocardial in the corresponding territory.

• 순환기질환의공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 순환기질환의공학회 2003년도 제3회 학술대회
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• pp.32-32
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• 2003