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Medicina Fluminensis, Vol. 51 No. 4, 2015.

Review article

Veins of the heart

Ivana Marić orcid id orcid.org/0000-0001-9318-5726 ; Zavod za anatomiju, Medicinski fakultet Sveučilišta u Rijeci, Rijeka
Tamara Šoić Vranić ; Zavod za anatomiju, Medicinski fakultet Sveučilišta u Rijeci, Rijeka
Marina Nikolić ; Zavod za anatomiju, Medicinski fakultet Sveučilišta u Rijeci, Rijeka
Snježana Bajek ; Zavod za anatomiju, Medicinski fakultet Sveučilišta u Rijeci, Rijeka
Ivana Smoljan ; Zavod za kardiovaskularne bolesti, Klinika za internu medicinu, KBC Rijeka, Rijeka
Mirjana Baričić orcid id orcid.org/0000-0003-0260-4425 ; Klinika za ortopediju Lovran, Lovran
Harry Grbas ; Klinika za kirurgiju, KBC Rijeka, Rijeka
Giordano Bačić orcid id orcid.org/0000-0002-7460-6481 ; Klinika za kirurgiju, KBC Rijeka, Rijeka
Dragica Bobinac ; Zavod za anatomiju, Medicinski fakultet Sveučilišta u Rijeci, Rijeka

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Abstract

The investigation of the cardiac veins have been neglected for decades because of the great importance of the coronary arteries in the pathogenesis of coronary heart disease. Advances in modern medicine and the introduction of innovative diagnostic and therapeutic procedures have led to the alternative routes to the access of the damaged heart, where the cardiac veins play an important role. Before the application of the new imaging methods for cardiac vessels, only dissection of the hearts were used. Now, with the help of these new diagnostic methods, the different classifications of cardiac veins was present. Most cardiac veins drain into the right atrium. The coronary sinus and its tributaries and the anterior cardiac veins have an important role in collecting and returning blood from the heart has. These veins constitute the greater cardiac venous system, while smaller cardiac venous system consists of the Thebesian vessels. They are the subject of an ongoing research in order to adapt to the different needs of myocardial drainage depending on the age and changes in various heart diseases. Variations of cardiac veins are common. The knowledge of cardiac vein variations and anastomoses have become important for understanding and interpretation of the heart vein images during performing diagnostic and therapeutic procedures.

Keywords

anatomy; coronary vessels; heart; humans; terminology; veins

Hrčak ID:

148236

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/148236

Publication date:

1.12.2015.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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