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IN A HEART IN WHICH THE LARGE CORONARY ARTERIES AND VEINS WERE DESTROYED BY TUBERCULOUS MYOCARDITIS

SAMUEL BELLET, M.D.; B. A. GOULEY, M.D.; THOMAS M. McMILLAN, M.D.

Arch Intern Med. 1933;51(1):112-121.

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Interest in the thebesian vessels or sinusoids has been renewed to a considerable degree in recent years. Pratt,¹ Kretz² and Wearn,³ particularly, have studied these vessels, and have expressed the belief that the heart can be effectively nourished through these channels after both coronary arteries have been occluded. Leary and Wearn⁴ further believe that under such conditions the only source of blood supply to the myocardium is through these channels.

Although several instances of occlusion of both coronary arteries have been reported⁵ in which a thebesian circulation was assumed, in no such case, so far as we know, have the sinusoids or dilated thebesian channels been investigated histologically and their distribution and other features studied. The heart of a boy, aged 16, described in case 5 in a paper on "Tuberculosis of the Myocardium,"⁶ presented a certain combination of pathologic changes which make it appear that for a . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
PHILADELPHIA

From the Division of Cardiology and Pathology of the Philadelphia General Hospital and the Robinette Foundation of the University of Pennsylvania.

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