Basic Considerations and Techniques in Coronary Sinus Interventions

TÍ hank God for the ingenious device of coronary ventricular channels, which relieve the myocardium from the coronary blood and thus prevent accumulations of interstitial fluid’ wrote Adam Christian Thebesius in 1703 in his thesis De circulo sanguine in corde.17 The drainage pathway so described was later named the Thebesian system which is one part of the lesser coronary venous system draining about 5-10% of coronary venous blood.