Francisco Torrent-Guasp, Mladen J Kocica, Antonio F Corno, Masashi Komeda, Francesc Carreras-Costa, A Flotats, Juan Cosin-Aguillar, Han Wen
Structure and function in any organ are inseparable categories, both in health and disease. Whether we are ready to accept, or not, many questions in cardiovascular medicine are still pending, due to our insufficient insight in the basic science. Even so, any new concept encounters difficulties, mainly arising from our inert attitude, which may result either in unjustified acceptance or denial. The ventricular myocardial band concept, developed over the last 50 years, has revealed unavoidable coherence and mutual coupling of form and function in the ventricular myocardium...
February 2005: European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery