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An anatomical study on the branching patterns of left coronary artery in the rats
2007
Ahn, D.C. (Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, Republic of Korea) | Kim, I.S. (Chonbuk National University, Jeonju, Republic of Korea), E-mail: iskim@chonbuk.ac.kr
The left main descending artery (LMDA) of left coronary artery (LCA) in rats runs around the left side of conus arteriosus after arising from the aortic sinus and descends to the apex of heart with branching several branches into the wall of left ventricle (LV). The ligation site of LMDA for myocardial infarction (MI) is the 2~4 mm from LCA origin, between the pulmonary trunk and left auricle. The characteristics that rat heart has no interventricular groove on the surface and its coronary arteries run intramyocardially with branching several branches give the difficulty in surgery for MI which resulted in expected size.
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