Title

Coronary dominance among the Indian aborted fetal hearts

Authors

Ashish Khokhariya¹, Sanjay Vikani¹, Bharat Gujar¹, Mayankkumar Javia^2,* & Ashok Nirvan³

Affiliation

¹Department of Anatomy, Banas Medical College & Research Institute, Palanpur, Gujarat, India; ²Department of Anatomy, Shantabaa Medical College & General Hospital, Amreli, Gujarat, India; ³Department of Anatomy, B J Medical College, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India; *Corresponding author

Email

Mayankkumar Javia - E-mail: drjaviamd@gmail.com - Phone: +91 9428242445

Ashish Khokhariya - E-mail: ashish331990@gmail.com

Sanjay Vikani - E-mail: doc.vikani@gmail.com

Bharat Gujar - E-mail: gujarbharat@gmail.com

Ashok Nirvan - E-mail: abnirvan@hotmail.com

Article Type

Research Article

Date

Received April 26, 2022; Revised June 30, 2022; Accepted June 30, 2022, Published June 30, 2022

Increasing incidences of myocardial infarction and decreasing age at which they are occurring has forced many researchers to do in depth study pertaining to the anatomical variations in the vascular pattern of heart. Coronary dominancy of the heart will determine whether the territory of the heart supplied by the posterior inter ventricular artery will receive blood from right coronary artery or left coronary artery or both. Present study was conducted to explore the variations in the coronary dominant pattern in the aborted human fetal hearts. Right and left coronary arteries in 30 aborted human fetal hearts were thoroughly dissected from their commencement from the corresponding aortic sinus till their termination. The coronary dominance was determined on the basis of origin of posterior inter ventricular artery. We found 60 % cases of right coronary dominance, 36.66 % cases of left coronary dominance and 3.33 % cases of balanced coronary dominance/ coronary co-dominance. Data shows variations in the vascular dominancy pattern of heart can be critically important for the cardiac surgeons, cardiologists as well as interventional radiologists while performing investigational or operative procedures.

Keywords

Right coronary artery, left coronary artery, posterior inter ventricular artery, coronary dominance, co-dominance

Citation

Khokhariya et al. Bioinformation 18(6): 513-517 (2022)

Edited by

P Kangueane

ISSN

0973-2063

Publisher

Biomedical Informatics

License

This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.