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heart, oxygen-carrying blood could not be forced up to the brain or out to the I muscles; the blood could not be returned to the lungs for reoxygenation or passed through the membranes of the kidneys for filtration and excretion of wastes.
One area where hypertension is particularly hazardous is the brain. High blood pressure can cause a rupture or blowout of an artery feeding the brain. When it does, part of the brain is deprived of its blood supply and thus its oxygen. The resulting damage is called a stroke. High...
The study--which Dr. Mary O. Amdur, associate professor of Toxicology, will direct--will look into the effects on the nose, eyes, throat and lungs of sulfates, oil mists and sulfur dioxide.
The patient was Ivan Taylor, 58, an engineer who entered Cape Town's Groote Schuur Hospital early in November. "He was in a hell of a mess," says Barnard. "Absolutely a desperate man." The problem was that the patient's heart was not all of a piece. Of...
The rationale was clear: oxygenated blood from the lungs would flow naturally into the patient's left atrium, and some from there to his repaired left ventricle for. pumping to the rest of his body. Some would also flow into the donor heart's left atrium and its...