It receives blood from the great cardiac vein ( receiving the left atrium and both ventricles ), the posterior cardiac vein ( draining the back of the left ventricle ), the middle cardiac vein ( draining the bottom of the left and right ventricles ), and small cardiac veins.
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It receives blood from the great cardiac vein ( receiving the left atrium and both ventricles ), the posterior cardiac vein ( draining the back of the left ventricle ), the middle cardiac vein ( draining the bottom of the left and right ventricles ), and small cardiac veins.
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It receives blood from the great cardiac vein ( receiving the left atrium and both ventricles ), the posterior cardiac vein ( draining the back of the left ventricle ), the middle cardiac vein ( draining the bottom of the left and right ventricles ), and small cardiac veins.
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It receives blood from the great cardiac vein ( receiving the left atrium and both ventricles ), the posterior cardiac vein ( draining the back of the left ventricle ), the middle cardiac vein ( draining the bottom of the left and right ventricles ), and small cardiac veins.
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It is formed by the folding of the serous layer over the remnant of the lower part of the left superior vena cava ( duct of Cuvier ), which becomes obliterated during fetal life, and remains as a fibrous band stretching from the highest left intercostal vein to the left atrium, where it is continuous with a small cardiac vein, the vein of the left atrium ( oblique vein of Marshall ), which opens into the coronary sinus.
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Among several Japanese studies utilizing the ergovine-provocative spasm test to simulate ischemia in man and beast, including those of Takeshita and Tada, one by Yamagishi found that spasm in the LAD resulted in ( 1 ) ST segment elevation more commonly in those without collaterals than in those with them ( 8 of 9 vs . 2 of 7; p = 0.05 ); ( 2 ) greater increases in pulmonary artery end diastolic pressure in those without collaterals ( p = 0.05 ); and ( 3 ) great cardiac vein flow that was significantly greater in those with collaterals than in those without them.
