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Shumway's 33 surviving transplant patients* owe their lives to several innovative changes in postoperative care. The Stanford doctors routinely administer drugs that stimulate the heart for the first few days after the transplant. Explains Dr. Edward B. Stinson, head of the surgery team: "We noticed that a transplanted...
They made two circular patches only 11/2 inches in diameter, folded them like umbrellas and fitted them into a capsule less than a quarter of an inch in diameter. The capsule was attached to the end of a catheter inside a catheter, which was inserted into a large vein in...
X-Ray Movies. No one, however, did more to advance the cause of cardiac revascularization than Dr. F. Mason Sones Jr., a Cleveland cardiologist who in 1958 developed a method of mapping the cardiovascular system. Known by the jawbreaking name of cine coronary angiography, Sones' technique involved inserting a...
Often they are. Thanks to the institute's experiments, hardy new strains of wheat and barley now thrive in the sun-baked Israeli soil. In medicine, its scientists have developed a tiny, magnetic catheter that can travel through human blood vessels to reach the remotest regions of the body...
Near the magnetic tip are two small slits in the rubber tube. With a syringe attached at the neck opening, the doctor can inject a dye opaque to X rays at the precise spot where an arterial abnormality is suspected and see the vessels clearly outlined on the screen of...