Eksempler på sinus

• In seven percent of the cases, the sinus nodal artery took origin from a separate orifice within the same sinus as a major coronary artery.

• A cavernous sinus thrombosis, (a clot in the venous blood draining the face or sinuses and invariably fatal in pre-antibiotic days) should be considered.

• An electrocardiogram showed sinus rhythm with first degree atrioventricular block that advanced intermittently to second degree atrioventricular block.

• The sinus impulse is distributed through the plain working myocardium of the atrial walls to reach the atrioventricular junction.

• The widened coronary sinus itself never bulged into die left atrium.

• In our case, the only possible drainage for the left-sided atrium was through a window from the left atrium to the coronary sinus.

• The coronary sinus courses within the atrioventricular groove behind the left atrium to open into the right atrium.

• Only one patient had a sinus venosus defect in addition to the defect within the oval fossa.