Anatomical observations of the moderator band

Clinical Anatomy

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 443-450

  Loukas, Marios ^a   Klaassen, Zachary ^a   Tubbs, R Shane ^b   Derderian, Trevor ^a   Paling, D A N ^a   Chow, Drin ^a   Patel, Shilpa ^a   Anderson, Robert H ^c  

^a ST GEORGE S UNIVERSITY   (Grenada)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anatomy; Apical ventricular septal defect; Heart; Septomarginal trabeculation

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART MUSCLE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; MORPHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VALVE; SEPTOMARGINAL TRABECULA; TRICUSPID VALVE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CADAVER; FEMALE; HEART; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, VENTRICULAR; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 77951604586     PISSN: 08973806     EISSN: 10982353     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ca.20968     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. Aaron BL, Lower BR. 1975. Muscular ventricular septal defect repair made easy. Ann Thorac Surg 19:568-570.
2. Aliot E, de Chillou C, Revault d'Allones G, Mabo P, Sadoul N. 1998. Mahaim tachycardias. Eur Heart J 19 (Suppl. E):E25-E31.
3. Alva C, Ho SY, Lincoln CR, Rigby ML, Wright A, Anderson RH. 1999. The nature of the obstructive muscular bundles in double-chambered right ventricle. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 117:1180-1189. (Pubitemid 29270359)
4. Babington JP, Barlow GH. 1838. The British and Foreign Medical Review: Or Quarterly Journal of Practical Medicine and Surgery. London: John Churchill. p 174.
5. Bowles CR, Daves ML. 1985. Ramus limbi dextri: Demonstration by coronary angiography. Radiology 155:574.
6. Clemente CE. (ed.) 1985. Gray's Anatomy. Chambers of the Heart. 30th Ed. Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins. p 633.
7. Davis FA. 1890. Circulatory System. Annual of the Universal Medical Sciences. Vol.5. Atlanta: Cambridge. p 479.
8. Durant W. 2002. Heroes of History: A Brief History of Civilization from Ancient Times to the Dawn of the Modern Age. New York: Simon and Schuster. p 211.
9. Fothergill JM. 1879. The heart and its diseases, with their treatment: Including the gouty heart. In: Stokes W, editor. The Diseases of the Heart and the Aorta. Philadelphia: Lindsay and Blakiston. p 42-43.
10. Futami C, Tanuma K, Tanuma Y, Saito T. 2003. The arterial blood supply of the conducting system in normal human hearts. Surg Radiol Anat 25:42-49. (Pubitemid 36833717)
11. Gatzoulis MA, Webb GD, Daubeney PEF. (eds.) 2003. Diagnosis and Management of Adult Congenital Heart Disease. Edinburgh, Scotland: Churchill Livingstone. p 305.
12. Griffiths SP, Turi GK, Ellis K, Krongrad E, Swift LH, Gersony WM, Bowman FO Jr, Malm JR. 1981. Muscular ventricular septal defects repaired with left ventriculotomy. Am J Cardiol 48:877-886. (Pubitemid 12003538)
13. Grech ED, Ramsdale DR. (eds.) 2002. Practical Interventional Cardiology. 2nd Ed. London: Informa Health Care. p 399.
14. Hannan RL, McDaniel N, Kron IL. 1997. As originally published in 1989: Repair of large muscular ventricular septal defects in infants employing left ventriculotomy. Updated in 1996. Ann Thorac Surg 63:288-289. (Pubitemid 27039092)
15. Hilton J. 1891. Rest and Pain: A Course of Lectures on the Influence of Mechanical and Physiological Rest in the Treatment of Accidents and Surgical Diseases, and the Diagnostic Value of Pain. Cleveland: Garfield. p 1891.
16. Jongbloed MR, Wijffels MC, Schalij MJ, Blom NA, Poelmann RE, van der Laarse A, Mentink MM, Wang Z, Fishman GI, Gittenberger-de Groot AC. 2005. Development of the right ventricular inflow tract and moderator band: a possible morphological and functional explanation for Mahaim tachycardia. Circ Res 96:776-783. (Pubitemid 40559517)
17. Kurosawa H, Becker AE. 1985. Surgical anatomy of the atrioventricular conduction bundle in anomalous muscle bundle of the right ventricle with subarterial ventricular septal defect. Pediatr Cardiol 6:157-160. (Pubitemid 16177862)
18. Loukas M, Louis RG Jr, Van der Wall B, Hallner B, Tucker JJ, Esguerra F, Colborn GL. 2006. Iliolumbar membrane, a newly recognized structure in the back. Folia Morphol 65:15-21.
19. Loukas M, Louis RG Jr, Black B, Pham D, Fudalej M, Sharkees M. 2007. False tendons: an endoscopic cadaveric approach. Clin Anat 20:163-169. (Pubitemid 46254455)
20. McDaniel N, Gutgesell HP, Nolan SP, Kron IL. 1989. Repair of large muscular ventricular septal defects in infants employing left ventriculotomy. Ann Thorac Surg 47:593-594. (Pubitemid 19118812)
21. Michaelsson M, Ho SY. 2000. Congenital Heart Malformations in Mammals. London: World Scientific. p 7.
22. Petersen MS. 1910. Observations of the physiology of Purkinje tissue. Am J Phys 30:395-419.
23. Power JH. 1862. Anatomy of the Arteries of the Human Body. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott and Co. p 37-41.
24. Pyda M, Grajek S. 1991. Ramus limbi dextri or "moderator band" artery. Kardiol Pol 34:26-29.
25. Reig J, Alberti N, Petit M. 2000. Arterial vascularization of the human moderator band: An analysis of this structure's role as a collateral circulation route. Clin Anat 13:244-250. (Pubitemid 30437213)
26. Retzer R. 1909. The moderator band and its relation to the papillary muscles with observations on the development and structure of the right ventricle. Bull Johns Hopkins Hosp 20:168.
27. Rolleston G. 1873. The Harveian Oration. London: McMilan and Co. p 28-29.
28. Rolleston G. 1892. In: Schafer EA, Thane GD, editors. Quain's Elements of Anatomy. London: Longman's, Green and Co. p 360.
29. Sharma BD. 2002. Indian Wildlife-Threats and Preservation. New Delhi: Anmol Publications Pvt. p 65.
30. Singh AK, de Leval MR, Stark J. 1977. Left ventriculotomy for closure of muscular ventricular septal defects. Ann Surg 186:577-580.
31. Standring S. 2005. Section 6 Heart and Mediastinum. Chapter 60. Heart and Great Vessels. Gray's Anatomy. 39th Ed. New York: Elsevier Churchill Livingstone. p 1002, 1012-1014.
32. Steiner RM, Tegtmeyer CJ. 1983. The radiology of cardiac pacemakers. Cardiovasc Clin 14:63-95.
33. Stellin G, Padalino M, Milanesi O, Rubino M, Casarotto D, Van Praagh R, Van Praagh S. 2000. Surgical closure of apical ventricular septal defects through a right ventricular apical infundibulotomy. Ann Thorac Surg 69:597-601. (Pubitemid 30125599)
34. Van Praagh S, Mayer JE Jr, Berman NB, Flanagan MF, Geva T, Van Praagh R. 2002. Apical ventricular septal defects: Follow-up concerning anatomic and surgical considerations. Ann Thorac Surg 73:48-56. (Pubitemid 34084533)
35. Victor S, Ravindran P. 1985. Anatomical factors influencing fixation of endocardial pacing leads in the right ventricle. Tex Heart Inst J 12:23-32. (Pubitemid 15060789)
36. Walsh W, Wilde PP, Walsh CA. 2005. Practical Echocardiography. 2nd Ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p 53.
37. Wittkampf FHM, Ector H, van Hemel NM. 1995. The Pacemaker Clinic of the 90's: Essentials in Brady-Pacing. Philadelphia: Kluwer. p 11.
38. Wollenek G, Wyse R, Sullivan I, Elliott M, de Leval M, Stark J. 1996. Closure of muscular ventricular septal defects through a left ventriculotomy. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 10:595-598. (Pubitemid 126690770)
39. Wong PC, Sanders SP, Jonas RA, Colan SD, Parness IA, Geva T, Van Praagh R, Spevak PJ. 1991. Pulmonary valve-moderator band distance and association with development of double-chambered right ventricle. Am J Cardiol 68:1681-1686.
40. Wu MC, Ku PM, Chou MC, Huang TY. 2009. Usefulness of 64-slice computed tomography for evaluation of double-chambered right ventricle combined with atrial and ventricular septal defects. Tex Heart Inst J 36:74-75.