Cardiac Metabolism

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A KNOWLEDGE of myocardial metabolism is becoming increasingly important not only to the general practitioners and internists who treat cardiac disease daily but also to the surgeons who are now utilizing the modern advances of extracorporeal circulation, hypothermia and induced cardiac arrest. This report presents some of the more important aspects of the metabolism of the heart in an effort to stimulate further interest in this subject.Before the perfection of a method of coronary-sinus catheterization most of the investigation of the metabolism of the myocardium was performed on isolated preparations. The advent of the catheterization procedure, along with more . . .

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