Any regimen that would produce interarterial anastomoses so that the coronary arteries were no longer functionally end-arteries would mitigate the clinical manifestations of coronary artery disease. Knowledge of the factors influencing the development of interarterial coronary anastomoses, therefore, would be of great practical value.This paper presents the results of a study of coronary interarterial anastomoses in a series of 1271 human hearts examined by a uniform technic of injection and dissection. This unique body of data has provided a better understanding of the role of interarterial corollary anastomoses in normal and diseased states: insight into the basic mechanism of their production
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