Selective Cardiac Hypothermia and Myocardial Ischemia
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Authors
Lyttle, Marshall
Issue Date
1971
Type
Thesis
Language
en_US
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Abstract
Although this investigation of selective cardiac
hypothermia was confined to the library, its origins
are in clinical cardiac surgery. During my three
months of' career-Service and a part of the three
months of my Senior Independent Project, i worked
with Dr. John N. Wilson and Dr. Edward Gerety,
cardio-vascular surgeons in Albuquerque, New Mexico.,
It was through working with them that i came into
contact with selective cardiac hypothermia. Doctors
Wilson and Gerety had occasion to apply the technique
many times and in several different in intracardiac surgical
procedures. I was repeatedly astonished by its effectiveness in preserving the human myocardiun
during periods of ischemia as long as two hours and
twenty minutes. My curiosity as to the mechanism of
the extraordinary protection-afforded by hypothermia
seemed to make a study of the technique appropriate.
Description
vi, 45 p.
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Publisher
Kalamazoo College
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