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Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2006;30:689-690
© 2006 Elsevier Science NL

Letters to the Editor

The helical heart

^a Cardiac Unit, Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London WC1N 1EH, UK
^b Experimentelle Thorax-, Herz und Gefäßchirurgie, Universitsät Münster, Münster, Germany

Received 9 May 2006; accepted 26 June 2006.

^_* Corresponding author. Tel.: +44 207 905 2295; fax: +44 207 905 2324. (Email: r.anderson@ich.ucl.ac.uk).

Key Words: Ventricular myocardium • Ventricular architecture • Cardiomyopathy

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We read with considerable interest the extensive supplement that has recently appeared describing the features of the ‘helical heart’. As Buckberg [1] describes in his introduction, part of the purpose was to validate the anatomical findings supporting this concept, and as Buckberg [1] also explains, within the supplement is our own account which argues strongly against the concept of the ventricular myocardium being compartmented in such a way as to permit the uniform anatomical dissection of . . . [Full Text of this Article]