The coronary sinus (CS) refers to a collection of veins that join together to form a large blood vessel. This vein is located between the left atrium and the left ventricle of the heart. A ...

The great cardiac vein (GCV) can first be recognized at the anterior interventricular groove. Near the left coronary carina, it makes a sharp turn and continues in the left atrioventricular groove.

The median values in blood from the aorta and the great cardiac vein were –3.9 and –6.4, respectively, for those with a left-coronary-artery lesion (P<0.001) ...

Vein Harvesting for the Heart. Hide Video Transcript . ... Thompson is removing a healthy vein from Raymond's leg so it will be ready for Raymond's quadruple bypass operation.

Paz and colleagues' findings, however, indicate improvements in myocardial ischemia after permanently reducing coronary venous outflow with a CSRS introduced into the silent zone of the great ...

The authors cite Ganz et al. 2 as their authority for the assumption that right-sided venous drainage does not enter the great cardiac vein. We believe that there are a number of problems with ...