Contributors to this volume examine the history of cardiology, stressing the source of ideas that have guided cardiology to the present. The lives of the scientists and physicians are emphasized, as are their successes and failures, their struggles and disappointments. Chapters covers. - Cardiac Catheterization - Echocardiography and the Doppler method - Cardiopulmonary Bypass - Congenital Heart Disease - Transplantation of the Heart - Artherosclerosis - Coronary Artery Disease - Coronary Artery Surgery - Isotopes in Cardiology - Myocardial Failure - Valvular Surgery - Hypertension and Hypertensive Heart Disease - Molecular Biology and Genetics of Cardiovascular Diseases - Electrophysiology - History of Cardiology at the Bedside Contributors to this volume include: Dr. Donald Baim, Dr. John Baldwin, Dr. Arnold M. Katz, Dr. Berndt Luderitz, and Dr. Alexander Nadas.
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Contributors to this volume examine the history of cardiology, stressing the source of ideas that have guided cardiology to the present. The lives of the scientists and physicians are emphasized, as are their successes and failures, their struggles and disappointments. Chapters covers. - Cardiac Catheterization - Echocardiography and the Doppler method - Cardiopulmonary Bypass - Congenital Heart Disease - Transplantation of the Heart - Artherosclerosis - Coronary Artery Disease - Coronary Artery Surgery - Isotopes in Cardiology - Myocardial Failure - Valvular Surgery - Hypertension and Hypertensive Heart Disease - Molecular Biology and Genetics of Cardiovascular Diseases - Electrophysiology - History of Cardiology at the Bedside Contributors to this volume include: Dr. Donald Baim, Dr. John Baldwin, Dr. Arnold M. Katz, Dr. Berndt Luderitz, and Dr. Alexander Nadas.
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Richard J. Bing is the director of Experimental Cardiology at the Huntington Medical Research Institutes in Pasadena, California, and a professor emeritus of medicine at the University of Southern California.
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THE DEVELOPMENT OF cardiac catheterization over the past fifty years has been staggering. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
chest defibrillation, selective coronary arteriography, oxygenator system, nonfailing hearts, implantable atrial defibrillator, failing human myocardium, binaural stethoscope, intracardiac surgery, human heart failure, cardiac metabolism, failing human hearts, chest cardiac massage, familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, mitral valvuloplasty, calcific aortic stenosis, valvular surgery, catheter ablation, pump oxygenator, extracorporeal circulation, angiotensinogen gene, mitral stenosis, myocardial failure, myocardial revascularization, membrane oxygenator, mitral insufficiency Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, York Academy of Medicine, Johns Hopkins, United States, Rockefeller Institute, Mayo Clinic, Children's Hospital, Columbia University, Alfred Blalock, Alexis Carrel, Cleveland Clinic, University of Minnesota, Harvard Medical School, Courtesy of the Neu, Journal of the American Medical Association, New Engl, Acta Med, Claude Bernard, University of California, University of Pennsylvania, Veterans Administration, Virchows Arch, World War, Helen Taussig, Massachusetts General Hospital New!
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THE DEVELOPMENT OF cardiac catheterization over the past fifty years has been staggering. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
chest defibrillation, selective coronary arteriography, oxygenator system, nonfailing hearts, implantable atrial defibrillator, failing human myocardium, binaural stethoscope, intracardiac surgery, human heart failure, cardiac metabolism, failing human hearts, chest cardiac massage, familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, mitral valvuloplasty, calcific aortic stenosis, valvular surgery, catheter ablation, pump oxygenator, extracorporeal circulation, angiotensinogen gene, mitral stenosis, myocardial failure, myocardial revascularization, membrane oxygenator, mitral insufficiency Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, York Academy of Medicine, Johns Hopkins, United States, Rockefeller Institute, Mayo Clinic, Children's Hospital, Columbia University, Alfred Blalock, Alexis Carrel, Cleveland Clinic, University of Minnesota, Harvard Medical School, Courtesy of the Neu, Journal of the American Medical Association, New Engl, Acta Med, Claude Bernard, University of California, University of Pennsylvania, Veterans Administration, Virchows Arch, World War, Helen Taussig, Massachusetts General Hospital New!
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