Tackling Major Killers: Heart Disease (January 2003)
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The Trials of an Artificial Heart; Tackling Major Killers: Heart Disease; by Steve Ditlea; 7 Page(s)

A year after doctors began implanting the AbioCor in dying patients, the prospects of the device are uncertain (originally published July 2002)

Operating on a Beating Heart; Tackling Major Killers: Heart Disease; by Cornelius Borst; 4 Page(s)

Coronary bypass surgery can be a lifesaving operation. Two new surgical techniques should make the procedure safer and less expensive (originally published October 2000)

Surgical Treatment of Cardiac Arrhythmias; Tackling Major Killers: Heart Disease; by Alden H. Harken; 6 Page(s)

To save the life of a doomed patient, the author and his colleagues developed a now standard surgical procedure for correcting lethally fast heartbeats in many people susceptible to them (originally published July 1993)

Defibrillation: The Spark of Life; Tackling Major Killers: Heart Disease; by Mickey S. Eisenberg, sidebar by Carl E. Bartecchi; 5 Page(s)

In the 50 years since doctors first used electricity to restart the human heart, we have learned much about defibrillators and little about fibrillation (originally published June 1998)

Atherosclerosis: The New View; Tackling Major Killers: Heart Disease; by Peter Libby; 10 Page(s)

It causes chest pain, heart attack and stroke, leading to more deaths every year than cancer. The long-held conception of how the disease develops turns out to be wrong (originally published May 2002)

Vessels of Death or Life; Tackling Major Killers: Heart Disease; by Rakesh K. Jain and Peter F. Carmeliet; 7 Page(s)

Angiogenesis - the formation of new blood vessels - might one day be manipulated to treat disorders from cancer to heart disease. First-generation drugs are now in the final phase of human testing (originally published December 2001)