J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2008;136:19-20
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Cardiac structure/function relationships: Reality or deduction?
Gerald Buckberg, MD*
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, Calif
Received for publication October 15, 2007; accepted for publication October 21, 2007.
* Address for reprints: Gerald Buckberg, MD, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, 10833 Le Conte Ave, 62-248 CHS, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1741. (Email: gbuckberg@mednet.ucla.edu).
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Experimental results, rather than deductions, become the final arbiter of scientific questions. To be useful, any anatomic description of the heart must address the well-documented in vivo movements structure that explains observed function because anatomic observations alone are of little value if they ignore the normal heart's coordinated and repetitive sequential motion.
Achievement of this objective requires building on prior contributions, and Anderson and colleagues have helped enormously in supplementing the landmark contributions of prior anatomists by (1) confirming the recognized clockwise and counterclockwise muscle formation with a . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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