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Please help docs! where does the coronary artery openings above the valve go out to?
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Coronary ostia: The right and left coronary arteries have their openings in the sinsuses of valsalva above the aortic leaflets. The right and left coronary arteries proceed from their openings to branch around the heart.
Answered 1/29/2014
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