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Left coronary artery structure

Known as: LM, coronary artery left, Coronary Artery, Left 
A coronary artery that arises from the aorta and bifurcates into the left anterior descending artery and the left circumflex artery.
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Narrower (2)

Anterior descending branch of left coronary arteryBranch of left coronary artery
Ascending aorta structureBifurcated lesion end segment:Type:Pt:Coronary arteries:NomBody partCDISC SDTM Anatomical Location Terminology

Broader (4)

Bulb of aortaCoronary arteryMediastinumSystemic arterial tree

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Highly Cited
1990
Highly Cited
1990
Initial report of the National Registry of Elective Cardiopulmonary Bypass Supported Coronary Angioplasty.
Highly Cited
1990
Highly Cited
1990
Reinfarction after thrombolytic therapy for acute myocardial infarction followed by conservative management: incidence and effect of smoking.
Highly Cited
1984
Highly Cited
1984
Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty in patients with prior coronary artery bypass grafting.
Highly Cited
1981
Highly Cited
1981
[The normal wall segment in coronary stenoses--a postmortal study (author's transl)].
In 384 stenotic coronary segments of extramural arteries (left main coronary artery, LAD, LCX, RCA) with degrees of obstruction… 
Highly Cited
1979
Highly Cited
1979
Ischemic myocardial cell injury. Prevention by chlorpromazine of an accelerated phospholipid degradation and associated membrane dysfunction.
Ligation of the left coronary artery of an adult rat heart results in the reproducible ischemic cell death of the entire free… 
Highly Cited
1978
Highly Cited
1978
Cardiac Function at Rest and During Exercise in Normals and in Patients with Coronary Heart Disease: Evaluation by Radionuclide Angiocardiography
This study demonstrates that radionuclide angiocardiography provides a simple and noninvasive approach for evaluation of… 
Highly Cited
1976
Highly Cited
1976
Noninvasive Visualization of the Left Main Coronary Artery by Cross‐sectional Echocardiography
SUMMARY Real time cross-sectional echocardiographic studies of the left main coronary artery (LMCA) were performed in 15 normal… 
Highly Cited
1976
Highly Cited
1976
Influence of collateral flow on the ischemic tolerance of the heart following acute and subacute coronary occlusion.
Acute occlusion of the circumflex branch of the left coronary artery was produced in chronically instrumented conscious dogs… 
Highly Cited
1968
Highly Cited
1968
Flow in the Major Branches of the Left Coronary Artery during Experimental Coronary Insufficiency in the Unanesthetized Dog
The dynamic changes in the coronary circulation and the response to drugs were studied following experimentally induced coronary… 
Highly Cited
1966
Highly Cited
1966
Myocardial uptake and fractional distribution of palmitate-1 C14 by the ischemic dog heart.
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