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The coronary venous anatomy

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Myocardial Perfusion, Reperfusion, Coronary Venous Retroperfusion

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The venous component of the coronary circulation has usually been ignored by anatomists and the scientific community in general. Yet, knowledge of the venous vascular system is particularly important, not only in relation to surgical retroperfusion using aorto-venous bypass anastomoses (e.g., the historic Beck II procedure), but also for the more recent applications of retrograde coronary sinus cardioplegia, synchronized coronary venous retroperfusion (SRP), and pressure control intermittent coronary sinus occlusion (PICSO) [2, 4, 5, 7, 13, 23, 29, 38, 43, 45, 46, 48, 49].

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Ratajczyk-Pakalska, E. (1990). The coronary venous anatomy. In: Meerbaum, S. (eds) Myocardial Perfusion, Reperfusion, Coronary Venous Retroperfusion. Steinkopff, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-12556-4_4

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