The Heart Healers (58 page)

fat.
See also
omega-3 fatty acids; trans fats

in diet

low, diet fad

milk and animal

Father of Cardiac Transplantation

Father of Open Heart Surgery

Favaloro, Juan José

Favaloro, René

Barnard compared to

blood flow surgery and

bypass surgeries of

as “country doctor”

early life of

failures of

on his foundation

publication of

Sones’s friendship with

suicide of

surgical trials for CAD

Favaloro, Roberto

Favaloro Foundation

femoral artery

fibrillation.
See also
ventricular fibrillation

finger fracture technique

Fishbein, Michael

Fixx, Jim

Fleming, Alexander

Florey, Howard

Forrester classification

Forssmann, Werner

defiance of

Nobel Prize of

reputation of

self-catheterization of

Framingham Heart Study

Frankfurt City Hospital

funding

fungi

funnel chest.
See
pectus excavatum

Gage, Andrew

Galbraith, John

Ganz, Willie

Garland, Joe

gender

Genentech

genetic engineering

genetic history

atherosclerosis and

CAD risk and

in diagnosis

disease and

for LDL

Gibbon, John H. (“Jack”)

career ending of

character of

death of

heart-lung machine and

published works of

training of

GISSI

Gittens, Gregory

Gladwell, Malcolm

Goekler, George

Goetz, Robert

Gold, Michael

Goor, Daniel

Gorlin, Richard

grants.
See also
funding

CCU

competing for

denial of

industry as source of

Greatbatch, Wilson

Green, George

Gruentzig, Andreas

balloon catheter of

character of

coronary angioplasty and

double-lumen catheter of

early life of

Hartzler and

innovation of

move to U.S.

patient survival rate of

plane crash and death of

Sones with

wives of

Hahnemann Hospital

Hahnemann Medical College

Hardy, James

Harken, Dwight

aortic valve surgery failure of

in Army Corps

Bailey competition with

catheterization and

character of

closed heart surgery and

as Cutler’s mentee

dog mitral valve surgery

drive and passion of

Gibbon criticism by

groundbreaking surgery of

mitral valve surgery and

moral dilemma of

postwar

as professor

Rehn compared with

suture method of

training of

as war surgeon

Hartzler, Geoffrey

childhood of

coronary angioplasty treatment by

death of

Gruentzig and

heart attack treatment by

as revolutionary

Harvard Medical School

Hahnemann compared to

sedentary lifestyle report by

Harvard School of Public Health

HDL.
See
high-density lipoprotein

health care

health insurance

heart

early myth about

pumping and collecting actions of

structure and function

3-D printer creating

heart attack

angina and

angioplasty and

with atheroma

after bypass surgery

cardiac output and

cardiac resuscitation after

cause of

celebrities and

cholesterol and

diagnosis of

diet and

ECG signs of

during exercise stress test

goal for future of

heart failure with

heart muscle damage with

mortality rate with

muscle damage and time with

with pacemaker

preventative therapy for

recreational drugs and

sexual activity and

statistics

Stein’s

thrombus and

treatment

heart block.
See also
complete heart block

in cross-circulation surgery

electrical impulse system and

pacemaker and

seizures and

sudden death and

surgically induced

heart disease.
See
coronary artery disease

heart failure.
See also
congestive heart failure

bedside management of

cardiac output during

causes

with heart attack

lung pressure control and

pacemaker experiment with

reversing

symptoms

treatment for

valve disease and

heart murmur

heart muscle

CAD damage to

death of

heart attack and damage to

nick in

regeneration of

scarring of

thrombus and death of

heart rate

blood flow and

drug lowering

life expectancy and

heart stimulant

heart surgery.
See also
aortic valve surgery; closed heart surgery; cross-circulation surgery; hypothermic heart surgery; mitral valve surgery; open heart surgery

arrhythmia during

Bailey’s groundbreaking

beginnings

costs

early compared to modern

famous case of

Harken’s groundbreaking

heart block with

major complications of

minimally invasive

moral dilemma in

World War II and

heart transplantation

for age 65 and over

anastomosis and

animal research for

Barnard and

beating over non-beating

challenges with

chimpanzee to human

cost of

cross-racial

deaths

donor and recipient matching for

first

selection process for

Shumway and

statistics for

survivor stories

tissue rejection in

Trento’s, program

heart valve.
See
valves

heartbeats

heart-lung machine

ASD and, surgery

bypass surgery and

cardiac resuscitation and

congenital heart disease and

death with

development of

Gibbon and

IBM engineering of

Kirklin and

Mayo Clinic and

Mustard creating

heart-lung transplant

Heatley, Norman

hematologist

hemorrhage

hemostat

high-density lipoprotein (HDL)

Hippocratic Oath

Hobson’s choice

Hoffmann-La Roche

hope

Hopkinson, Mary

Hu, Frank

Hyman, Albert

hypertension

hypertrophy

hypothermic heart surgery

for ASD

Bailey’s attempt at

inadequacies of

by Lewis and Lillehei

oxygen need and

IBM.
See
International Business Machines

Ibn Sina 28th Combat Support Hospital

ICD.
See
implantable cardioverter defibrillator

idiopathic cardiomyopathy

IMA.
See
internal mammary artery

immune suppression

drug for