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Saving the Heart : the battle to conquer coronary disease
- Title
- Saving the Heart : the battle to conquer coronary disease / Stephen Klaidman.
- Author
- Klaidman, Stephen
- Publication
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.
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Details
- Description
- xvi, 272 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "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.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Biography.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 1. A Heart Attack: David Allison's terrifying experience -- 2. The Revolution of 1912: James Herrick insists that heart attacks are caused by clots and are survivable -- 3. Creating the Platform: Jay McLean, Werner Forssmann, and John Gibbon make the discoveries that make treatment possible -- 4. Groping in the Dark: Primitive attempts at coronary surgery, and Mason Sones invents the diagnostic test that makes bypass surgery possible -- 5. Accidents and Innovations: How bypass surgery began, how Rene Favaloro made it matter, and how three big clinical trials tested what it could do -- 6. Surgeons: John Kirklin, Paul Taylor, and what it takes to be a heart surgeon -- 7. Smart Operators: Wes Sterman and Chuck Taylor put engineering and entrepreneurship at the service of surgery, and vice versa -- 8. A Momentous Decision: Lewis Hollander decides to have beating-heart surgery --
- 9. Angioplasty: A Balloon on a Snake: Andreas Gruentzig invents angioplasty and flames out in a storm over Georgia -- 10. The Interventionalist as Entrepreneur: John Simpson invents a better catheter -- 11. Trials and Errors: EAST and BARI were two big, well-conducted clinical trials that might not have warranted the multimillion-dollar investment of taxpayer dollars -- 12. Interventional Cardiology Expands: Julio Palmaz invents the coronary stent -- 13. How Healing Can Harm: The hunt for the molecular causes of heart attacks -- 14. What Shall We Make of All This? A critical summation -- App. A. Designing and Mounting Clinical Trials -- App. B. What Patients Need to Know.
- ISBN
- 0195112792 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 99028930
- OCLC
- 42835086
- ocm42835086
- SCSB-4788135
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries