Smoking Ears and Screaming Teeth by Trevor Norton

Author:Trevor Norton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pegasus

Forssmann’s experiments provided revolutionary methods for locating, diagnosing and treating heart disease. It was a quantum leap for cardiological surgeons. They had been given access to the interior of the heart without having to lift a scalpel. Conditions considered hopeless became curable. Drugs could be delivered directly into the heart instead of being injected and then diluted while travelling there in the bloodstream. The tips of the catheter were modified to scour the lining of a dangerously furred coronary artery and prevent blockage, the main cause of heart attacks. Other tubes now carry a tiny balloon that can be inflated to widen restricted vessels (angioplasty).

These techniques are now so commonplace that every patient with a heart problem is given an angiogram, an X-ray in which the blood vessels and the chambers of the heart are rendered visible, as in Forssmann’s second experiment. At this moment hundreds of catheters are sliding around patients’ bodies, into and through the heart to diverse destinations beyond. Every organ served by a blood vessel has been visited. Countless lives have been saved. All because of a brave man, who was fired, forgotten and finally rediscovered and rewarded when it was too late.

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