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What is the importance of the pectinate muscles in our heart?
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Pectinate muscles: It is thought that they enable the atria to react to varying volume loads without a lot of change in pressure. When the atrial muscle hypertrophies such as in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, atrial pressure may be much higher per unit volume than in the normal heart.
Answered 12/7/2014
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