PERSISTENCE OF NEW VASCULAR CHANNELS FOLLOWING CARDIOPERICARDIOPEXY
- 7 May 1955
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA
- Vol. 158 (1) , 36-37
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1955.02960010000009b
Abstract
Investigators have demonstrated that intercoronary and extracoronary anastomosis can prevent myocardial ischemia and infarction in some patients suffering from chronic coronary insufficiency. Since extracoronary anastomosis can be augmented by pericardial adhesions, it is not surprising that cardiopericardiopexy, which is a simple operation, became the method of choice for surgical treatment of chronic coronary heart diseases and angina pectoris. However, some writers have considered the beneficial results following cardiopericardiopexy to be temporary, since newly formed vascular channels in granulation tissues have a tendency to regress. The purpose of this paper is to present a case of chronic coronary heart disease with several infarctions treated by the cardiopexy operation and the persistence of the newly formed vessels in the pericardial adhesions 15 months afterward. REPORT OF A CASE A 59-year-old male was admitted to the Edgewater Hospital on Nov. 21, 1952, complaining of precordial and retrosternal pain on effort and during excitementKeywords
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