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Figure 8

From: A new surgical ventricular restoration technique to reset residual myocardium's fiber orientation: the "KISS" procedure

Figure 8

Coronary vessels and fiber orientation. A: Epicardial course of coronary arteries crossing fiber orientation. The shaded area depicts transmural necrosis induced by coronary vessel occlusion which concerns a sector of myocardium made by several strata of differently oriented myocardial fibers and ends where the territory of another coronary vessel begins. B: At the border zone, still normal myocardium with still normal fiber orientation interlaces with the necrotic tissue that lost its 3D fiber structure. Necrotic tissue discontinues contiguity of myocardial fibers, although they remain normally oriented in the thickness of normal myocardium (correspondence of points "a" and "a1", "b" and "b1" etc). Fiber picture obtained by the DTI Track module of MedINRIA software [45].

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