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The venous drainage of the coronary vascular bed consists of CS drainage to the RA and non-coronary sinus drainage to both the right and left sides of the heart. The CS functions as a collecting space for the venous blood from the ventricular veins during ventricular systole. Being strongly fixed to the left atrial myocardium, the CS is emptied during atrial systole (Meerbaum 1984; Tsujioka et al.1984; Sun et al. 2002).
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von Lüdinghausen, M. (2003). The Significance of the Coronary Sinus and Cardiac Veins in Cardiology. In: The Venous Drainage of the Human Myocardium. Advances in Anatomy Embryology and Cell Biology, vol 168. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-55623-4_8
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