THE BECK OPERATIONS FOR CORONARY HEART DISEASE: AN EVALUATION OF 63 PATIENTS SELECTED FOR OPERATION
Authors: H FEIL, W H PRITCHARD, H K HELLERSTEIN, R W WATTS, J C HORNBERGER, H M HELFRICH
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1956)

Article1 February 1956THE BECK OPERATIONS FOR CORONARY HEART DISEASE: AN EVALUATION OF 63 PATIENTS SELECTED FOR OPERATIONHAROLD FEIL, M.D., F.A.C.P., WALTER H. PRITCHARD, M.D., F.A.C.P., HERMAN K. HELLERSTEIN, M.D., RICHARD W. WATTS, M.D., J. CARL HORNBERGER, M.D., HARRY M. HELFRICH, M.D.HAROLD FEIL, M.D., F.A.C.P., WALTER H. PRITCHARD, M.D., F.A.C.P., HERMAN K. HELLERSTEIN, M.D., RICHARD W. WATTS, M.D., J. CARL HORNBERGER, M.D., HARRY M. HELFRICH, M.D.Author, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-44-2-271 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptThis is a report of 63 patients who were selected for one or the other of the Beck operations for coronary heart disease at University Hospitals of Cleveland. A committee of three physicians selected the patients for operation, and examined and observed them preoperatively, during the operation, during convalescence, and in each of the follow-up periods. All of the patients were operated upon by Dr. Claude S. Beck under uniform conditions.The surgical methods of increasing coronary artery flow fall into two categories:1. Those aimed at increasing vascular communications between the myocardium and extracardiac structures: (a) by the pericarditis...Bibliography1. BeckTichy CSVL: The production of a collateral circulation to the heart. I. An experimental study, Am. Heart J. 10: 849, 1935; II. Pathological anatomical study, Am. Heart J. 10: 874, 1935. CrossrefGoogle Scholar2. Beck CS: The development of a new blood supply to the heart by operation, Ann. Surg. 102: 801, 1935. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar3. ThompsonRaisbeck SAMJ: Cardiopericardiopexy: surgical treatment of coronary arterial disease by establishment of adhesive pericarditis, Ann. 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