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• Title:Saving the Heart : the battle to conquer coronary disease / Stephen Klaidman.
  
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• Author/Creator:Klaidman, Stephen.
  
• Published/Created:New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WZ112.5.S8 K533 2000
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Coronary heart disease--Treatment--History.
  Coronary heart disease--Surgery--History.
  
• Medical Subjects: Thoracic Surgery--Biography.
  Coronary Disease--history.
  Coronary Disease--surgery.
  Thoracic Surgery--history.
  
• Description:xvi, 272 p. : illustrations.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:0195112792 (alk. paper)
  
• Contents:1. Heart Attack: David Allison's terrifying experience
  2. 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. 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. 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.