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- catalog abstract ""Though still the leading cause of death, coronary heart disease is now killing half as many people in the U.S. as in the 1960s, partly because of innovative treatments like bypass surgery and balloon angioplasty. This book tells the stories of the bold researchers who developed such treatments and explores the tough ethical questions raised by the big money being made in modern cardiology."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog contributor b11463398.
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""Though still the leading cause of death, coronary heart disease is now killing half as many people in the U.S. as in the 1960s, partly because of innovative treatments like bypass surgery and balloon angioplasty. This book tells the stories of the bold researchers who developed such treatments and explores the tough ethical questions raised by the big money being made in modern cardiology."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog description "A heart attack : David Allison's terrifying experience -- The revolution of 1912 : James Herrick insists that heart attacks are caused by clots and are survivable -- Creating the platform : Jay McLean, Werner Forssmann, and John Gibbon make the discoveries that make treatment possible -- Groping in the dark : primitive attempts at coronary surgery, and Mason Sones invents the diagnostic test that makes bypass surgery possible -- Accidents and innovations : how bypass surgery began, how René Favaloro made it matter, and how three big clinical trials tested what it could do -- Surgeons : John Kirklin, Paul Taylor, and what it takes to be a heart surgeon -- Smart operators : Wes Sterman and Chuck Taylor put engineering and entrepreneurship at the service of surgery, and vice versa -- A momentous decision : Lewis Hollander decides to have beating-heart surgery -- Angioplasty : a ballon on a snake : Andreas Gruentzig invents angioplasty and flames out in a storm over Georgia -- The interventionalist as entrepreneur : John Simpson invents a better catheter -- Trials and errors : EAST and BARI were two big, well-conducted clinical trials that might not have warranted the multimillion-dollar investment of taxpaper dollars -- Interventional cardiology expands : Julio Palmaz invents the coronary stent -- How healing can harm : the hunt for the molecular causes of heart attacks -- What shall we make of all this? : a critical summation -- Appendix A : Designing and mounting clinical trials -- Appendix B : What patients need to know.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "xvi, 272 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Saving the heart.".
- catalog identifier "0195112792 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Saving the heart.".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog relation "Saving the heart.".
- catalog subject "617.4/12059 21".
- catalog subject "Coronary Disease history.".
- catalog subject "Coronary Disease surgery.".
- catalog subject "Coronary heart disease Surgery History.".
- catalog subject "Coronary heart disease Treatment History.".
- catalog subject "RC685.C6 K53 2000".
- catalog subject "Thoracic Surgery Biography.".
- catalog subject "Thoracic Surgery history.".
- catalog subject "WZ 112.5.S8 K63h 2000".
- catalog tableOfContents "A heart attack : David Allison's terrifying experience -- The revolution of 1912 : James Herrick insists that heart attacks are caused by clots and are survivable -- Creating the platform : Jay McLean, Werner Forssmann, and John Gibbon make the discoveries that make treatment possible -- Groping in the dark : primitive attempts at coronary surgery, and Mason Sones invents the diagnostic test that makes bypass surgery possible -- Accidents and innovations : how bypass surgery began, how René Favaloro made it matter, and how three big clinical trials tested what it could do -- Surgeons : John Kirklin, Paul Taylor, and what it takes to be a heart surgeon -- Smart operators : Wes Sterman and Chuck Taylor put engineering and entrepreneurship at the service of surgery, and vice versa -- A momentous decision : Lewis Hollander decides to have beating-heart surgery -- Angioplasty : a ballon on a snake : Andreas Gruentzig invents angioplasty and flames out in a storm over Georgia -- The interventionalist as entrepreneur : John Simpson invents a better catheter -- Trials and errors : EAST and BARI were two big, well-conducted clinical trials that might not have warranted the multimillion-dollar investment of taxpaper dollars -- Interventional cardiology expands : Julio Palmaz invents the coronary stent -- How healing can harm : the hunt for the molecular causes of heart attacks -- What shall we make of all this? : a critical summation -- Appendix A : Designing and mounting clinical trials -- Appendix B : What patients need to know.".
- catalog title "Saving the Heart : the battle to conquer coronary disease / Stephen Klaidman.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".