Coronary sinus ostium: The key structure in the heart's anatomy from the electrophysiologist's point of view

Heart and Vessels

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 449-456

  Mlynarski, Rafal ^a   Mlynarska, Agnieszka ^a   Tendera, Michal ^b   Sosnowski, MacIej ^a,b  

^a Upper Silesian Cardiology Center   (Poland)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

Author keywords

Cardiac resynchronization; Coronary sinus; Heart failure; Right atrium; Thebesian valve

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY SINUS; FEMALE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC VOLUME; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDSYSTOLIC VOLUME; HEART OUTPUT; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HEART SIZE; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY SINUS; FEMALE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLAND; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 80051559973     PISSN: 09108327     EISSN: 16152573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00380-010-0075-3     Document Type: Article

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