Regional venous drainage of the human heart.
- 1 January 1968
- Vol. 30 (1) , 105-109
- https://doi.org/10.1136/hrt.30.1.105
Abstract
The coronary sinus of the human heart drains 96% of the small veins arising from left ventricular and intra-ventricular septal myocardium. Only 17% of the small veins draining into the coronary sinus arise outside the left ventricular system. The use of coronary sinus blood samples is supported as highly representative of left ventricular efflux in studies of human patients.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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