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shingles with
and tissue rejection

implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD)

indigestion

industry.
See also
biotechnology industry; pharmaceutical industry

infarction

inflammation

antioxidants and
atheromas and
CAD and

innovation

of battlefield surgeons
CAD treatment
in drugs and devices
ECG
establishment and
of Gruentzig
moral dilemma with

Institute of Medicine

insulin

internal mammary artery (IMA)

International Business Machines (IBM)

interventional cardiology

medical therapy and
qualities of doctors in
view of CAD

intravascular ultrasound

ivabradine

Jobs, Steve

Johns Hopkins University

Johnson, Lyndon

joint pain

Judkins, Melvin

Julian, Desmond

Justus, Wilhelm

Kar, Saibal

Keys, Ancel

King, Spencer

Kirklin, John

LAD.
See
left anterior descending

Larsson, Arne

Lasker Award

Lavie, Carl

lawsuit.
See
malpractice

LDL.
See
low-density lipoprotein

leaflets

left anterior descending (LAD)

left atrium

left heart

left ventricle

Leighninger, David

Lenfant, Claude

Leon, Martin

Levine, Herbert

Lewis, John

Lewis, Royston

life expectancy

life support

lifestyle

Lifetime Achievement Award

Lillehei, C. Walton

Bakken partnership with
cancer of
career of
character of
cross-circulation surgery and
death of
early life of
hypothermic heart surgery of
legal defense for
as mentor
ostracization of
pacemaker and
publicity of
string of failures for
tax evasion indictment of
wife’s accident

Lillehei, Kaye

lipid

lipid hypothesis

Lipitor.
See
atorvastatin

lipoprotein

LoDoCo trial

London Marathon

lovastatin

low-density lipoprotein (LDL)

CAD rate and
genetic mutation for
normal range of

Lower, Richard

lumen

lung pressure

lungs.
See also
heart-lung machine; heart-lung transplant

lymphosarcoma

Makkar, Raj

stem cell therapy and
valve disease and

malpractice

Mann, George

manual cardiac massage.
See
cardiac massage

Marbán, Eduardo

Martínez-González, Miguel Ángel

Mayo Clinic

Mayo Gibbon–type oxygenator.
See
heart-lung machine

medical devices

for CABG
implantable
innovation in
lack of
for lung pressure
for valve disease

medical establishment

catheterization reactions of
innovation and

medical therapy

with angina
for atherosclerosis
interventional cardiology and

Mediterranean diet

Medtronic

mentorship

Harken and Cutler
Lillehei
roles in
Wangensteen

Merck

metabolic rate

mevastatin

Million Hearts initiative

MIRU.
See
Myocardial Infarction Research Unit

misdiagnosis

misfits

creativity with
doctors as
in Jobs quote
medical establishment
mentorship and

mitral valve

artificial
normal

mitral valve stenosis

CAD increase over
death from
early treatment of
modern occurrence of
rheumatic fever leading to
in underdeveloped countries

mitral valve surgery

advances in
animal research for
artificial valve in
Bailey’s
Brock’s success at
complications
fatalities with
finger fracture technique in
first successful
Harken and
purse-string sutures in
Smithy’s success with

Monagan, David

moral dilemma.
See also
ethics

in cross-circulation surgery
in industry funding research
with innovative research

mortality rate

CAD’s
cardiac defect
cardiac output and
with cardiogenic shock
CCU and
with heart attack
with running
television watching and
with thrombolytic therapy

Muamba, Fabrice

Mukherjee, Siddhartha

Mustard, William

character of
heart-lung machine of
success and awards of

Musunuru, Kiran

Myler, Richard

myocardial

myocardial infarction.
See
heart attack

Myocardial Infarction Research Unit (MIRU)

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)

CAD risk study by
cholesterol inhibitor trial
registry of angioplasty patients

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Neville, Phillip

New England Cardiac Society

New England Journal of Medicine

New England Medical Journal

NHLBI.
See
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

Nidorff, Stephan

NIH.
See
National Institutes of Health

nitroglycerin

Nobel Prize

nominees
for penicillin discovery
winners

Nora Index

obesity

Oliver, Michael

omega-3 fatty acids

One Life
(Barnard)

open heart surgery

challenges of
with cross-circulation
evolution of
hypothermia and
oxygenated blood in

orifice

Outliers
(Gladwell)

oxygenation, blood

animal research and
coronary artery delivery of
hypothermia and
in open heart surgery
outside body
placenta and

pacemaker

Bakken’s portable
components
defibrillator combined with
experiment on dogs
heart attack with
heart failure and
implantable
before invention of
lifesaving impact of
Lillehei and internal
limitation of early
nature over man-made
wireless
Zoll’s external

Paget, Stephen

Palmaz, Julio

palpation

Pasteur, Louis

Payne, Misty

PCSK9 gene

pectus excavatum

penicillin

discovery
World War II and

percutaneous

pericardial tamponade

pericardium

Peter Bent Brigham Hospital

Peters, John

pharmaceutical industry

Endo and
Genentech and
statins in

Philadelphia

Bailey’s early reputation in
early cardiac surgery in

Philadelphia General Hospital

placenta

plaque.
See
atheroma; vulnerable plaques

plaque rupture.
See
atheroma rupture

post-traumatic stress syndrome

preinfarction angina.
See
angina

Preston, Thomas

preventative therapy

with exercise
for heart attack
for rheumatic fever
with statins

prosthesis

prosthetic valve surgery

Proudfit, William

Puel, Jacques

pulmonary

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