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To the Editor: We share Buffon and colleagues' belief in widespread coronary inflammation (July 4 issue).¹ However, believing in a hypothesis is not the same as proving it. Conclusions drawn from these experiments are not based on anatomical fact.

The authors cite Ganz et al.² as their authority for the assumption that right-sided venous drainage does not enter the great cardiac vein. We believe that there are a number of problems with this assumption. Ganz et al. provide no data to rule out the possibility that right-coronary-artery inflow makes a significant contribution to great-cardiac-vein and coronary-sinus outflow. Their measured coronary-sinus . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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