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Enhanced performance, evaluation, and interpretation of the various forms of cardiological diagnostic procedures and open-heart surgery, the achievement of a rapid improvement in the oxygen consumption of hypoxic myocardium, and the salvage of viable but ischemic myocardium still appear to constitute the most important challenges to modern medicine.
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von Lüdinghausen, M. (2003). Introduction. In: The Venous Drainage of the Human Myocardium. Advances in Anatomy Embryology and Cell Biology, vol 168. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-55623-4_1
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