Word: epicardium
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Dates: during 1954-1954
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...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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