THE SURGICAL TREATMENT OF ISCHAEMIC HEART DISEASE
Subtitle: AN ACCOUNT OF THE CORONARY AND INTERCORONARY CIRCULATION IN MAN AND ANIMALS
By: Being THE MOYNIHAN PRIZE ESSAY OF THE ASSOCIATION OF SURGEONS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, 1960
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR BIOSOCIAL DEVELOPMENT AND HUMAN HEALTH
Published: 1999
Place of publication: United States
Format: Hardbound
Number of pages: 174
Copyright date: 1999
Subjects: SURGICAL REVASCULARISATION OF THE HEART; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY CIRCULATION IN HEALTH AND IN DISEASE; SURGERY
Genres: CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY
Other titles: THE MOYNIHAN PRIZE ESSAY OF THE ASSOCIATION OF SURGEONS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND 1960
Work titles: MONOGRAPH ON REVASCULARISATION OF THE HEART
First sentence: From the Introduction: Although the last three decades have witnessed dramatic changes in the understanding of arteriosclerotic heart disease - primarily coronary artery disease - it remains clear that much has yet to be learned. That a satisfactory therapeutic solution is not directly at hand is apparent in the concern that diagnosis of coronary artery disease evokes in both the minds of patients and physicians...............The present endeavor is an attempt directed at evaluating several of the significant characteristics of coronary artery disease and an effort to determine that surgical operation which may offer most relief to patients with intractable angina pectoris due to obliterating arteriosclerotic heart disease.
Description: In 1960 Dr Stacey Day was awarded the Moynihan Prize and Medal of the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland for the experimental studies presented in this essay. The work was done in the Surgical Laboratory of Dr Owen H. Wangensteen at the University of Minnesota Medical School. At the time it was customary for the Moynihan Prize Essay to be published in the British Journal of Surgery, but with the approval of the editor at that time, it was felt that the work could be better published as a monograph. It has taken nearly forty years to absolve that agreement, yet even today the main body of the work stands up to the approval that it earned in 1960, and the extensive bibliography of 556 references related to the coronary problem still serves as a foundation of reading for those who would apply themselves to experimental and clinical studies on the heart.
Notes: Surgical Operations Studied = Beck I Operation; Intrapericardial Instillation Operations; Internal Mammary Artery Implantation;  Arteriocardiopexy; Bilateral Internal Mammary Artery Ligation; Gastrocardiopexy; Pneumocardiopexy; Cervico-Thoracic Sympathectomy; Left Atrial - Pulmonary Artery Shunt; Observations from Revascularising Procedures in the Experimental Animal were discussed in detail. In an Appendix there is a portrait of Professor Owen H. Wangensteen, and a portrait of Professor Claude A. Beck with personalised inscription to "Stacey B. Day from Claude A. Beck - In memory of a visit to my laboratory June 30, 1966 - Best Wishes for a good life". 556 bibliographic references relating to the work are presented in a final section.