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...month later, I returned to the hospital for an angiogram, thalium scans and other tests. The thinking then was that the new vessels would grow in the first month--or not at all. The tests detected no new vessels. Failure. I reverted to Plan A and resigned myself to the prospect of, at best, a much restricted life...
During the first five years of research, the center introduced several innovations to aid cardiac patients, including blood clot-dissolving enzymes, the insertion of a balloon into the aorta to help pump blood, and the use of radioactive thalium 20 to differentiate healthy heart cells from irreversibly damaged ones...
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