RSS Feeds
Obstruction to Left Ventricular Outflow
Current Concepts of Management and Operative Treatment
- ANDREW G. MORROW, M.D.;
- WILLIAM C. ROBERTS, M.D.;
- JOHN ROSS, JR., M.D.;
- R. DARRYL FISHER, M.D.;
- DOUGLAS M. BEHRENDT, M.D.;
- DEAN T. MASON, M.D.; and
- EUGENE BRAUNWALD, M.D.
- Requests for reprints should be addressed to Andrew G. Morrow, M.D., Chief, Clinic of Surgery, National Heart Institute, Bldg. 10, Rm. 6-N-252, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md. 20014.
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Dr. Andrew G. Morrow: Since the clinical program of the National Heart Institute was initiated in 1953, a continuing interest in both the Cardiology and Surgery Branches has been the study and treatment of patients with the congenital or acquired malformations that result in obstruction to left ventricular outflow, that is, aortic stenosis in its various forms. In 1963 an NIH Clinical Staff Conference was devoted to the subject of aortic stenosis (1). In the ensuing 5 years our understanding of the physiologic, pathologic, and hemodynamic characteristics of these malformations has increased manyfold, and the techniques and the results of
Acknowledgments
Figures 7, 8, and 21 through 26 are reproduced by permission of the American Heart Association, Inc., New York, N. Y. Figures 7 and 8 from Ross and Braunwald (2). Figures 21 through 23 from Frank and Braunwald (10). Figures 24 through 26 from Morrow, Fogarty, Hannah, and Braunwald (11).
Article and Author Information
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This is an edited transcription of a Combined Clinical Staff Conference at the Clinical Center, Bethesda, Md., by the National Heart Institute, National Institutes of Health, U. S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.
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- Received September 20, 1968.
- Accepted October 9, 1968.
