CORONARY VENOUS SYSTEM DISEASES

Coronary_Venous_System_Diseases

CORONARY VENOUS SYSTEM ANATOMY

Mehmet Ali Çan1 Ozan Tavas2

1Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Anatomy, Çanakkale, Türkiye

2Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Anatomy, Çanakkale, Türkiye

Çan MA, Tavas O. Coronary Venous System Anatomy. In: Altay S, Akşit E, Kemaloğlu Öz T editor. Coronary Venous System Diseases. 1st ed. Ankara: Türkiye Klinikleri; 2025. p.13-19.

ABSTRACT

Venous return of the heart can be divided into two groups, greater cardiac veins and lesser cardiac veins. Greater cardiac veins drains the majority of the heart and mainly open into coronary sinus. Typ- ically greater cardiac veins are located epicardially inside the cardiac adipose tissue. Greater cardiac veins include: coronary sinus and its tributaries, veins draining the right ventricle and veins draining the left atrium. Lesser cardiac veins are located intramyocardially or subendocardially and empties directly into any of the four chambers of the heart. Eventhough the lesser cardiac veins takes only smaller portion of the cardiac venous return, they drain very important areas like sinoatrial node or atrioventricular node and bundle of his.

Keywords: Coronary veins; Coronary sinus; Thebesian vessels; Cardiac venous return

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