The 3D geometric relationship between the mitral valvar annulus and the coronary arteries as seen from the perspective of the cardiac surgeon

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Source: European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery
Source URL: http://ejcts.oxfordjournals.org/content/44/6/1123.abstract

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Author(s): Noa Ghersin, Sobhi Abadi, Anat Sabbag, Yehiel Lamash, Robert H. Anderson, Helen Wolfson, and Jonathan Lessick

The authors analyzed cardiac CT scans of 70 patients for the smallest distance between each point on the annulus and each of the left circumflex and right coronary arteries. The global minimum for the left circumflex was

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