Does blood flow through holmium:YAG transmyocardial laser channels?

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 861-868

  Kohmoto, Takushi ^a   Fisher, Peter E ^a   Gu, Anguo ^a   Zhu, Shu Ming ^a   Yano, Osvaldo J ^a   Spotnitz, Henry M ^a   Smith, Craig R ^a   Burkhoff, Daniel ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOLMIUM; YTTRIUM;

ANGINA PECTORIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AORTA VALVE; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY; DOG; LASER SURGERY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVASCULARIZATION;

EID: 0029866937     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0003-4975(95)01134-X     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Mirhoseini M, Shelgikar S, Cayton MM. New concepts in revascularization of the myocardium. Ann Thorac Surg 1988;45:415-20.
2. Mirhoseini M, Cayton MM, Shelgikar S, Fisher JC. Clinical report: laser myocardial revascularization. Lasers Surg Med 1986;6:459-61.
3. Cooley DA, Frazier OH, Kadipasaoglu KA, Pehlivanoglu S, Shannon RL, Angelini P. Transmyocardial laser revascularization: anatomic evidence of long-term channel patency. Tex Heart Inst J 1994;21:220-4.
4. Mirhoseini M, Muckerheide M, Cayton MM. Transventricular revascularization by laser. Lasers Surg Med 1982;2: 187-98.
5. Okada M, Shimizu K, Ikuta H, Horii H, Nakamura K. A new method of myocardial revascularization by laser. Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1991;39:1-4.
6. Horvath KA, Smith WJ, Laurence RG, Schoen FJ, Appleyard RF, Cohn LH. Recovery and viability of an acute myocardial infarct after transmyocardial laser revascularization. J Am Coll Cardiol 1995;25:258-63.
7. Jeevanandam V, Auteri JS, Oz MC, Watkins J, Rose EA, Smith CR. Myocardial revascularization by laser-induced channels. Surg Forum 1991;41:225-7.
8. Yano OJ, Bielefeld MR, Jeevanandam V, et al. Prevention of acute regional ischemia with endocardial laser channels. Ann Thorac Surg 1993;56:46-53.
9. Landreneau R, Nawarawong W, Laughlin H, et al. Direct CO2 laser "revascularization" of the myocardium. Lasers Surg Med 1991;11:35-42.
10. 2 laser-induced intramyocardial revascularization. Basic Res Cardiol 1990;85:179-97.
11. Whittaker P, Kloner RA, Przyklenk K. Laser-mediated transmural myocardial channels do not salvage acutely ischemic myocardium. J Am Coll Cardiol 1993;22:302-9.
12. Burkhoff D, DeTombe PP, Hunter WC. Impact of ejection on magnitude and time course of ventricular pressure-generating capacity. Am J Physiol 1993;265(Heart Circ Physiol 34): H899-909.
13. Kowallik P, Schulz R, Guth BD, et al. Measurement of regional myocardial blood flow with multiple colored microspheres. Circulation 1991;83:974-82.
14. Schulz R, Miyazaki S, Miller M, et al. Consequences of regional inotropic stimulation of ischemic myocardium on regional myocardial blood flow and function in anesthetized swine. Circ Res 1989;64:1116-26.
15. Jugdutt BI, Becker LC, Hutchins GM. Early changes in collateral blood flow during myocardial infarction in conscious dogs. Am J Physiol 1979;237(Heart Circ Physiol 6): H371-80.
16. 2 on tissue-ATP content in ischemic and infarcted myocardium. J Mol Cell Cardiol 1987;19:19-37.
17. Hardy RI, Bove KE, James FW, Kaplan S, Goldman L. A histologic study of laser-induced transmyocardial channels. Lasers Surg Med 1987;6:563-73.
18. Pifarré R, Jasuja ML, Lynch RD, Neville WE. Myocardial revascularization by transmyocardial acupuncture: a physiologic impossibility. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1969;58: 424-31.
19. Burkhoff D, Fisher PE, Apfelbaum M, Kohmoto T, DeRosa CM, Smith CR. Histologic appearance of transmyocardial laser channels after 41/2 weeks. Ann Thorac Surg (in press).
20. Horvath KA, Mannting F, Cohn LH. Improved myocardial perfusion and relief of angina after transmyocardial laser revascularization [Abstract]. Circulation 1994;90(Suppl 1): 640.
21. Frazier OH, Cooley DA, Kadipasaoglu KA, et al. Transmyocardial laser revascularization: initial clinical results [Abstract]. Circulation 1994;90:I-640.
22. Kohmoto T, Fisher PE, Gu A, Zhu SM, Smith CR, Burkhoff D. Physiology of chronic transmyocardial laser channel created with a CO2 laser [Abstract]. Circulation 1995;92(Suppl 1):176.