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Surgical therapy can provide a complete cure for specific types of heart disease, including angina pectoris, thyrotoxic heart disease, and pericardial abnormalities.
This paper reviews surgical interventions for specific types of heart disease, including angina pectoris, thyrotoxic heart disease, and pericardial disease, where complete cure can often be accomplished.
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May inform surgical referral for select curable conditions; leaves open need for contemporary validation.
In most instances of chronic heart disease, the physician is not able to effect a complete cure but is able to prolong life and to make the patient more comfortable. There are, however, some diseases of the heart or of structures which affect the heart indirectly which respond brilliantly to surgical therapy. These conditions constitute only a small percentage of the total but this does not minimize the importance of diagnosing and treating them. For purposes of convenience, heart disease may be divided into the nonsurgical types, in which treatment is usually palliative, and the surgical types, in which a complete cure can often be accomplished. It is with the latter types that this paper is concerned. To be more specific, angina pectoris, thryotoxic heart disease, abnormalities of the heart associated with pericardial disease and with abnormal communications between systemic arteries and veins and several miscellaneous conditions will be considered
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Alfred Blalock (1940) conducted a review in Heart disease. Surgical therapy was evaluated. Surgical therapy can provide a complete cure for specific types of heart disease, including angina pectoris, thyrotoxic heart disease, and pericardial abnormalities.
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