Word: epicardium
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...Vineberg told the cardiologists, he has combined this technique with an even more extensive operation for heart-disease victims who have blocks in two or three coronaries. In addition to implanting the mammary artery, Dr. Vineberg now opens the heart sac and removes all of its inner layer (the epicardium). Then he wraps the heart in what amounts to a blanket of tissue that is rich in blood vessels. To get this material, he cuts through the diaphragm and takes out a 6-inch by 10-inch piece of the omentum, the apron of fat that lies over the intestines...
...Arthur Vineberg had been operating on animals, testing his own refinements of a basic technique suggested by British Surgeon Laurence O'Shaughnessy (who was killed at Dunkirk). Dr. Vineberg opened Watkins' chest, cut into the heart sac and removed part of its innermost layer, the epicardium. This exposed the enlarged left ventricle. From the abdominal cavity he pulled up a flap of the omentum, a layer of fatty tissue which has a generous blood supply, and attached it so that the omentum's blood would nourish the left ventricle...
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