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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

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