Direct Myocardial Revascularization
History, Methodology, Technology

Intends to offer the necessary perspective to stimulate investigators (both clinicians and basic scientists) to ask the appropriate questions in their own experiments and, in time, determine whether direct myocardial revascularization has a place in the treatment of coronary artery disease.

In the case of transmyocardial revascularization, distance comes both in terms of history and in terms of methodology and knowledge from other fields of research. The purpose of Direct Myocardial Revascularization: History, Methodology, Technology is to provide the necessary perspective to stimulate investigators (both clinicians and basic scientists) to ask the appropriate questions in their own experiments and, in time, determine whether direct myocardial revascularization has a place in the treatment of coronary artery disease.

Preface. 1. Early Methods of Myocardial
Revascularization
B.L. Tucker. 2. The Vineberg
Procedure in the Era of Transmyocardial Revascularization A New
Paradigm for an Old Operation
J.C. Tsang, et al. 3.
TMR: Is it Still a Physiological Impossibility? R.
Pifarre. 4. Increased Perfusion via Laser-Mediated
Myocardial Channels? Importance of Appropriate Models and Endpoints

K. Przyklenk, et al. 5. Physiology and Histology of
Acute Myocardial Channels Made with Different Lasers
T. Kohmoto,
et al. 6. Potential Laser Wavelengths for Percutaneous
Endomyocardial Revascularization
J.D. Eisenberg, et al.
7. Initial Use of an Ultarviolet Laser for TMR
P. Whittaker,
et al. 8. The First Clinical TMR Trial: Historical
Perspective
J.R. Crew. 9. Initial Clinical Experience
with a Holmium: YAG Laser: A Case Study Demonstrating Increased
Myocardial Perfusion
D. Burkhoff, et al. 10. Nuclear
Imaging Techniques for the Evaluation of TMLR
H. Schoder,
H.R. Schelbert 11. Myocardial Angiogenesis: Biology and
Therapy
C.A. Mack, et al. Index.