Fields of Investigation in Favaloro University

  • Experimental acute myocardial infarction in monkeys
  • Ultrastructural study and effects of revascularization
  • Myocardial revascularization in angina post acute myocardial infarction
  • Myocardial revascularization in patients with severe ventricular dysfunction
  • Prospective and randomized study: intermediate syndrome and progressive angina (medical vs. surgical treatment)
  • Dura mater prostheses (hemodynamic research and development)
  • Angina of recent onset
  • Ventricular function in patients operated on during an acute myocardial infarction
  • Dosage of cyclic AMP in human myocardium. Comparative study among patients with and without coronary artery disease
  • Effect of acid base status on the contractility of papillary human muscle
  • Inotropic study and Frank Starling law in atrial fibrillation
  • Intraoperative study with strain-gauge and "in vitro" with aleatory stimulation
  • Electron microscopy in ischemic myocardiopathy
  • Angiographic classification. Error evaluation in the angiographic diagnosis
  • Vascular stenosis. Diameter vs. cross-sectional area relation in geometrical model of vascular lesions
  • Nomogram at bedside for hemodynamic approach to heart disease patient
  • Theoretical model for the pathophysiology of the total artificial heart and the mathematical approach for its experimental proof
  • The preload as geometrical determinant sector of the afterload
  • Critical analysis on the ejection fraction
  • Mathematical demonstration of the sequential lengthening of PR interval and shortening of RR interval during Wenckebach periodicity
  • Total artificial heart. Hemodynamic studies
  • Intraventricular impedancimetry. P-Z and P-V loops on line
  • Surgical treatment of induced ventricular tachycardia
  • Sonomicrometry. Left wall thickness in normal and ischemic heart. Intraventricular diameter in normal and ischemic heart. Left ventricular dimensions of transplant heart
  • Cardiac output meter using a pneumotachograph in the diastolic cycle and air pressure variations during the systolic cycle.
    PV Diagrams as an index of ventricular function in real time
  • Predimensional loops relating intraventricular pressure, anterior wall thickness and posterior wall thickness and intraventricular diameter, anterior wall thickness and posterior wall thickness
  • An analysis of myocardial ischemia dysfunction utilizing the relationship among pressure diameter and wall thickness in the conscious dog
  • Experimental coronary spasm and enzyme release
  • Triaxial graphics as an aid to understanding left ventricular function. Analysis of signals
  • Impedance pressure diagrams (P-Z-D)
  • End-systolic function by impedancimetry
  • Development of a mechanical prosthetic valve and of an oxygenator.

 


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