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The heart and lungs are of utmost importance in the vascular diagnostic approach by postmortem angiography. Nonoccluded coronary arteries can be opacified down to their myocardial branches. Since a standard anatomy of the coronary arteries is found in less than 50 % of all cases, different coronary dominance types and variations of origin and course of the vessels can be reliably detected. The filling of the heart chambers with contrast medium may be helpful for volumetry. A regular anatomy of the heart valves should be demonstrable. The ramifications of non-occluded pulmonary arteries are easily demonstrable by retrograde filling of the venous system; however, the pulmonary veins may not be contrasted if retrograde filling via the aortic and mitral valves is impeded or remains incomplete.
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Heinemann, A., Vogel, H. (2016). Anatomy of the Heart and Lungs in Postmortem Angiography. In: Grabherr, S., Grimm, J., Heinemann, A. (eds) Atlas of Postmortem Angiography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28537-5_13
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